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Restaurants: Nuno Mendes’ exceptional Cozinha das Flores in Porto

June 8, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 13102 Views Restaurants

Website: https://cozinhadasflores.com/ I went twice in two nights to Cozinha das Flores. It was that good. The first time was

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Malhadinha Nova head north: noted Alentejo estate makes new wines in Portalegre – Teixinha

June 6, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3826 Views Alentejo

Malhadinha Nova are a well regarded Alentejo estate, based in the southern end of the region, close to the Algarve.

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A revolution at Cortes de Cima in Portugal’s Alentejo

May 20, 2024November 14, 2025 jamiegoode 12632 Views Alentejo

(Updated May 2024 with notes on new release wines) In 2020 Anna Jørgensen took over at Cortes de Cima, a

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Quinta do Poeta, a new Douro winery

April 18, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4273 Views Douro

The poet in question is Fausto José dos Santos Júnior (1903-1975), who was born in Aldeia de Cima in the

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Gardunha Sul, an interesting new producer in Portugal’s Beira Interior

April 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4675 Views

André Lourenço spent 15 years making techno wines for other people before he decided to start his own project, making

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Arribas Wine Co: exciting low-intervention wines from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7262 Views

Website: https://arribaswine.com/ Ricardo Alves and Frederico Machado (pictured above) began the Arribas Wine Company in 2017. They are based in

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Revela: an exciting new producer from Portugal’s Dão wine region

March 4, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5466 Views Dao

Mariana Salvador is a winemaker working with Textura and the Barbetio still wines. Revela is her own project in the

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Highlights: Maçanita Vinhos Letra F Vinho de Mistura 2022, Douro Valley, Portugal

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Treve Ring 4589 Views Douro, Old vines

Letra F refers to the last letter in the grade for the categorization system for port grapes in the Douro,

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Casa de Mouraz, a biodynamic producer in Portugal’s Dão region

February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 jamiegoode 6544 Views Dao

Website: http://www.casademouraz.com/en/ Back in 2000, Sara Dionísio and António Ribeiro left their jobs in Lisbon to become full-time winegrowers in

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Video: reviving the tradition of making wines in amphora in the Alentejo, Portugal

January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 8006 Views Alentejo, Amphora

The south of the Alentejo wine region has a tradition of making wine in large clay amphorae known as talhas.

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With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett

Twelve wines, selected by their maker, four from Zorzal and four from Riccitelli, Undurraga and The Garage Wines Company, were

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
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Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 jamiegoode
Cantina Terlarno and Produttori del Barbaresco: an amazing dinner with two of the world’s great cooperative wineries, tasting back to the 1960s
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Cantina Terlarno and Produttori del Barbaresco: an amazing dinner with two of the world’s great cooperative wineries, tasting back to the 1960s

October 23, 2026October 23, 2026 jamiegoode
The 2025 wines from Pascal Jolivet in Sancerre
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The 2025 wines from Pascal Jolivet in Sancerre

October 22, 2026 jamiegoode

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