Portugal

現地詳報 I love tasting wines I know absolutely nothing about. Not often but sometimes I make a great discovery. Best of...

無料で読める記事 Paul Symington (second from the left) of the Symington Family Estates, producers of Graham's, Dow's, Warre's ports et al, wrote...

テイスティング記事 Below are reviews of about 60 wines made respectively by the brothers Jacques and François Lurton (pictured), who were once...

無料で読める記事 What's the opposite of diversification? That's certainly what the Symington family seem set on. The Portugal-based family company that already...

現地詳報 Purple pagers take note. The organisers of the annual New Douro tasting in London are for the first time opening...

テイスティング記事 The following 88 notes were taken in the Douro in the July heat of high summer, where heavyweight reds are...

現地詳報 Of all the things I came across in the Douro Valley in Portugal recently – luxury yachts, gigantic ants, pink...

テイスティング記事 Port, for many of us, is inextricably related to weather. In England, it is strictly a seasonal drink, to be...

無料で読める記事 Portuguese wine writer Maria João de Almeida sat me down in my garden at the end of last month and...

現地詳報 Luís Pato, the famously idiosyncratic producer based in the Bairrada region, has been appointed vice president of the official government...

テイスティング記事 Here's a complement to Great wines from Portugal published earlier this week. This line up of venerable Dão wines, whites...

今週のワイン From €7.27, £7.99, 16.40 Swiss francs, $14.98, Aus$26.29, Ca$23 Find this wine This week’s wine is a seriously fine offering...

テイスティング記事 See also Good old Dão, Julia's notes on a retrospective tasting. It is so sad that top-quality Portuguese wine is...

テイスティング記事 These wines were shown at a ‘New Douro’ tasting in London at the end of October. UK importers and occasionally...

今週のワイン Find this wine. Ensaios means ‘experiments’ in Portuguese but this wine seems less an experiment – with possible connotations of...

今週のワイン Find this wine Full-bodied, oaked, perfumed whites from Portugal are not ten a penny. The highly unusual Esporão Reserva Branco...