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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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Nick on restaurants
There was a period, roughly between 1985 and 2005, when no busy London restaurant could have survived, let alone prospered...
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Nick on restaurants
Readers could be forgiven for believing that when it comes to choosing restaurants around the world, I lead something of...
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Twenty-four winemakers from the Douro Valley will be in London next month and, as last year, the organisers are offering...
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This is the third and final part of my review of the Portuguese wines I have tasted over the last...
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Following on from our Plethora of Portuguese whites, here is the second in the trio of articles, this one focusing...
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See also my companion articles on Portuguese reds and sweet and fortified wines. How often do you drink wines from...
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21 August 2017 See an interesting addition at the bottom of this article. See also More on Diam published today...
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From €7.99, £13, $12 Find this wine This is an LOL wine (take your pick between laugh-out-loud and lots of...
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There's a delicious irony in the Douro's magic. Just when you and the vines are seeking relief from the heat...
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Find this wine From €4.95, £10.35 The first necessity of a wine of the week is to taste delicious. Its...
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Number 30 in our series of entries to our wine writing competition comes from Richard Ashton, who writes: I’m in...
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For the background to the magical Douro Valley and the recent wine revolution within it, see Julia's article yesterday on...
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It may no longer be brand new but the New Douro is still a young movement compared with the Douro’s...
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From €4.65, £6.75, $8.98, 1,593 yen, 119.90 Norwegian kroner Find this wine We all know that the Douro Valley in...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also yesterday's array of tasting notes on 39...
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