#Portugal

WINE OF THE WEEK: Carvalho Martins Golpe Douro Branco 2021, Douro, Portugal

£13.50, Tanners This recent discovery by Tanners is a gem: a textured, dry white wine with crystalline acidity, a riveting smoky, mineral...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Quinta do Noval Late Bottled Vintage Port 2016, Portugal

£19.95–£26.75, Master of Malt, Cheers, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Ocado, Bon Coeur Fine Wines, Oddbins Never mind saving this until...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Quinta do Mouro Zagalos Reserva 2017, Alentejano, Portugal

£20, The Wine Society In view of the weather, I almost changed to a white wine this week, the intense, fragrant, beautifully chiselled...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Rui Madeira Beyra Rosé 2020, Beira Interior, Portugal

£9.95, The Wine Society In the second of my two summer rosé roundups, I applauded the more interesting textures making rosés ever more...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Cedro do Noval Tinto 2018, Vinho Regional Duriense, Portugal

£19.99, Cellar Door Wines, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Street Wines; £69 for 6 en primeur, Tanners Wines An inviting, approachable but...

Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2021 Rosé Roundup Part 2

As in part one, there's a cross-section of styles, grape varieties, origins and prices here and I'm going from high to low again, so that...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Organic Douro 2017, Portugal

£10.50–£11.80, Booths, Waitrose, Davy's Wine, Tanners Wine, The Wine Shop (Knaresborough) I'd like to think that my venture into...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Casa Da Passarella Somontes Branco 2017, Serra da Estrela, Dão, Portugal

£11.95, Davy's Portugal isn't as known for its dry white wines, other than Vinho Verde, as it deserves to be. Dão is certainly much more...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Tanners Super Douro Reserva 2015, Douro, Portugal

£14.50, Tanners Wines It was a hard choice: Tanners Côtes du Rhône, an absolute charmer from the very good 2016 vintage, or this Douro...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Douro Branco 2016, Douro, Portugal

£8.50, The Wine Society I’ve been following this delicious unoaked white from the outset and each vintage more than lives up to its...

Weird and wonderful grape varieties

“Some of the wines are available in the UK; others are so rare it is unlikely that you will be able to find much literature on them,”...

Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?

Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...

WINE OF THE WEEK: F'Oz Dão 2013, Portugal

£9.99, Laithwaites I was going to recommend this velvety Portuguese red a while back but it was out of stock everywhere. It’s now...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Graham's 10 Year Old Tawny Port

£16 (on offer), Sainsbury's Waitrose, Ocado, £19, Oddbins This is a bottle to pick up if you’re still rushing around buying last-minute...

WINE OF THE WEEK: João Portugal Ramos Vinho Verde Loureiro 2014

£7.99, cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk and Adnams stores Hear this: Portuguese wines are some of the most overlooked and underrated and you...