The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal
Website: https://www.quintadetourais.com/en/index.html Tourias is located in the Baixo Douro, the first part of the Douro you come to when heading
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Features
Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)
Website: https://www.foliasdebaco.com/ Tiago Sampaio is making some of the Douro’s most interesting natural wines under the Uivo brand. His winery
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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?
Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great
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The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region
It was back in 2002 that João Nicolau de Almeida and Eduardo Lopes began Muxagat, a terroir project based the
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New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers
Website: https://www.savagewines.com/ Duncan Savage has established himself as one of South Africa’s top producers, and each year he seems to
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Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable
António Maia Ferreira Faria was a celebrated producer of classic, long-lived Bairrada under the Gonçalves Faria label, working with some
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Bendito Destino: a brilliant new project in Spain’s Ribero del Duero
Website: https://www.benditodestino.wine/ Terry Kandylis was head sommelier at 67 Pall Mall, and then spent a year working for Caprice Holdings,
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Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s Bairrada region (updated with new notes, June 2025)
François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural
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Visiting the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, the Grand Cru of the UK beer scene
Website: https://www.thekernelbrewery.com/index.php For a while, I ran a beer blog, with Daniel Primack. It was quite fun, even if it
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The new wines from the Marco de Jerez: Sherry and Manzanilla reinvented, by going back to the past
In 2008 Niepoort collaborated with Equipo Navazos to make a special wine: an unfortified flor-aged table wine. This was to
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