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Saravá, innovative low-intervention wines from Vinho Verde and Douro, Portugal

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 487 Views Douro, Natural wine, Vinho Verde

Website: https://www.galactic.wine/ Miguel Viseu is the winemaker at low-intervention wine producer Aphros in Vinho Verde, but he also has his

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Video: the Port harvest in the Douro, 2025, with Taylor’s

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1805 Views Douro

Website: https://www.taylor.pt/ 2025 will go down as one of the trickiest vintages of recent years, simply because it was very

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Latest Portugal Regions 

Gallery: the Douro in black and white

September 1, 2025 jamiegoode 2115 Views Douro

Some images from the Douro, captured in black and white. Sometimes restricting creative options helps you to look more carefully.

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Features Latest Portugal 

The Douro wines of Sogrape’s Casa de Ferreirinha, including Barca Velha, Portugal’s most famous table wine

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1469 Views Douro

Sogrape is a big company with a wide range of wines, but also has some gems in its range, most

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Features Latest Portugal 

Wine & Soul: Pintas and Manoella from Portugal’s Douro (updated with new notes, July 2025)

July 24, 2025July 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2984 Views Douro

Website: https://wineandsoul.com/ Jorge Borges and Sandra Tavares have built something special with Wine & Soul. I first bumped into them

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Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal

June 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1986 Views Douro

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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Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)

June 14, 2025June 15, 2025 jamiegoode 11187 Views Douro

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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Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1345 Views Douro

It was back in 2002 that João Nicolau de Almeida and Eduardo Lopes began Muxagat, a terroir project based the

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Quinta do Noval deep dive: latest releases and more from this important Douro estate

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025 jamiegoode 3093 Views Douro, Port

Head to the Douro and then make your way to Vale Mendiz in the Pinhão Valley, you’ll find one of

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Quinta da Pedra Alta, a new Douro star, with consultant winemaker Matt Gant

January 6, 2025January 7, 2025 jamiegoode 6841 Views Douro

Website: https://www.qpa.pt/ Matt Gant is a winemaker from Western Australia, but previously he was based in the Barossa, where he

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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley
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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 jamiegoode

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages
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Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025 jamiegoode
Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance
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Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode
The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry
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The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode

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