Highlights: Dow’s Vintage Port 2024 Douro, Portugal
Isn’t Port wonderful? And Vintage Port, the pinnacle of the Port world, can even be drunk young. I reckon it’s
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Quinta do Noval deep dive: latest releases and more from this important Douro estate
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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Three Vintage 2022 Ports from Taylor and Fonseca including a new bottling called Sentinels
As a vintage, 2022 was heading for disaster – it was just so dry. Between November 2021 and February 2022
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The Symington Vintage Port Day: celebrating the pinnacle from the Douro, looking at 2022, 2003, 1985 and 1963
Vintage Port is the pinnacle wine of the Douro. Made from top vineyard sites in the best years, it is
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Port and Madeira: a fortified discussion with Niepoort and Barbeito
As part of the program at the 2023 Arlberg Weinberg festival, sommelier Amanda Wassmer-Bulgin compered this session with Ricardo Freitas
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Tasting top fortified wines blind: the 2023 Best Bottle Award in Lech am Arlberg, Austria
Best Bottle Award 2023, Restaurant Fux, Lech am Arlberg, Austria Part of the Arlberg Weinberg festival, this is the fourth
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Highlights: four Ports to consider for the festive season
I love Port, and I kind of wish (for the sake of the Port producers) that it wasn’t such a
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Highlights: Niepoort Vintage Port 2003
This is a Vintage Port that I tried early on in its life, and then went an bought a bottle
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Niepoort launch their amazing 2019 Vintage Port
Niepoort have launched their 2019 Vintage Port, in a tasting beamed live from the Niepoort Lodge in Vila Nova de
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Video and notes: tasting five Ports from Ramos Pinto
Jamie Goode tastes five ports from Ramos Pinto: white, 20 year old tawny, LBV and then the 1995 and 1997
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