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Port – 2022 and much more
Reviews of 18 recently released 2022 vintage ports as well as some outstanding older wines, both bottle-aged and wood-aged, and a few delicious rarities. Above, the 2022 harvest at Fonseca's...
Julia Harding MW
Monday 11 November 2024
• 9 min read
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It's wines like those described below that motivate me, that remind...
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An anytime, anywhere classic recommended.
From HK$500, $66.99, £54, €79, SG$150.71, CA$149.99, 1,075 Norwegian kroner, NZ$184.95, 16,522 Japanese yen, 995...
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7 August 2020 I have now been able to add tasting notes for the three offerings from The Fladgate Partnership...
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Are port's fortunes on the turn? This article has been syndicated.
Many, many years ago, in the early 1990s, I...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times, in an issue of the magazine whose theme...
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To coincide with the declaration of 2016 as a vintage year for port, we're publishing this 2016 vintage report from...
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4 August 2018 Note on Quinta de la Rosa 2016 added. 8 June 2018 We continue to add tasting notes...
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From HK$510, €71.39, $79, £69, 9,362 yen, 1,100 Danish krone, NZ$244.95 Find this wine Our wines of the week are...
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Earlier this year I bought a Eurocave wine cabinet, thereby finally providing controlled storage conditions in my home. I am...
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George Sandeman, the figurehead of the Sandeman port house, showed off 20 vintages of Sandeman port in London last month...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
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We may debate the effects of western Europe’s drought in Rioja, but there is no doubt at all that port...
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The great thing about the port business at the moment, or rather the Port Wine Trade as its traditional practitioners...
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“If we do not get people to change the way they see vintage port, without alienating our traditional customers, we...
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See my overview of the 2003 vintage and the vintage port market and Roy Hersh of Seattle's excellent report at...
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