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Lisboa's wine regions and producers, part 2
A tour of the southern half of this Portuguese wine region. See part 1 for producers and wines from the northern half. Above (left to right), Hugo Mendes, Gilberto Marques...
Julia Harding MW
• 15 min read
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Here, in the order served, are my tasting notes on all the wines included in the fascinating tasting of Portuguese...
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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...
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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...
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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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