Raymond Reynolds – the story

Raymond Reynolds

How one man and his small team brought so many fine Portuguese wines to the UK.

After the cancellation of the Raymond Reynolds’ 30th-anniversary tasting that should have taken place in London last month, I asked Reynolds to send me a selection to taste at home.

As you can see from their website, they import wines from every region of Portugal and from more than 25 top producers – some quite big and well known, such as Niepoort or Soalheiro, some very small and less well known, such as Casal Figueira or Susana Esteban.

I also asked him to...