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Portuguese collection autumn 2025 – sparkling, white and rosé
What Julia does when she has (almost) finished work. The five months since my last Portuguese collections have passed in a whirl, between working on the maps of the 9th...
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 12 November 2025
• 22 min read
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Hugo Mendes, Curtimenta 2023 Lisboa
Julia Harding MW
Friday 12 September 2025
• 1 min read
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WWC25 – An ode to Vinhão, by Lisa Graziano
Guest contributor
Thursday 21 August 2025
• 1 min read
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The Portuguese are taking a leaf out of the Australians’ book (see the Great Australian Wine Experience ) and are...
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find this wine – from £4.99, $7.99 and 10.69 Swiss francs I could swear this classic Portuguese red has actually...
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Portuguese table wines are a mystery – to most non-Portuguese anyway. This is a great shame as Portugal has many...
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I went to a tasting of hundreds of exported and exportable Portuguese wines the other day and...
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Family strife is everywhere. Once confined to, but the raison d’etre of, literature, it now seems to dominate our tv...
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Just like Spain, Portugal is in the grip of a table wine revolution. But unlike Spain it has a vast...
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Long-term purple pagers will already have read my enthusiastic tasting notes on Luis Pato’s 2001s, no longer made within the...
Don't quote me
The port business, or as those who run it still quaintly call it, 'the port wine trade', is doing brilliantly...
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At what is arguably São Paulo's answer to Clarke's restaurant in London or Fanny's at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, the...
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I have just received the following report of a comparative tasting in which I was asked to participate in Lisbon...
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More Portuguese table wine, I'm afraid, but white this time – and very delicious too. Quite a find and made...
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On purple pages recently we have looked in some detail at the most exciting table wines to emerge from Portugal's...
Inside information
See also my tasting notes on wines from this area. Here on purple pages, especially in your turn, we have...
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This should be read in conjunction with my overview in inside information. Dão Duque de Viseu 2000 Sogrape 15 Drink...
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Richard Mayson, wine writer and Portuguese specialist, sends this report: I have just come back from the Douro and things...
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Along with its neighbour Dão, Bairrada is one of Portugal's most classic red table wine regions. Douro has been catching...
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