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Oscar’s Red
Oscar’s Red Parcel Force dropped my latest Naked Wines order by the door of number 27, my ‘across the hall’ neighbours. One box was successfully lifted into No.29 but the retrieveal of the second was...
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Maynard’s Port
Maynard’s Port Port – it’s a winter thing aint it? Like many I’ve sipped on white port cocktails in the spring and drunk chilled, fruity, LBV’s through a straw in the height of the summer. But for us...
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Essencia Do Vinho, Portugal
Essencia Do Vinho, Portugal I was lucky to be invited to the annual Essencia do Vinho tasting in Portugal earlier this year. This is a photograph of the main tasting hall, a grand old building,...
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Tons de Duorum Vinho Tinto
Tons de Duorum Vinho Tinto This has got to be the very best red wine I’ve sampled so far this year. Not sampled actually, more… savoured, relished, enjoyed, consumed… maybe even actually drank. A...
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Tons Duorum Branco
Tons Duorum Branco OK, so my last wine reco was a tad over the top. It isn’t really the best wine I’ve had all year (the Mauricio Lorca Lirico Corte de los Arcangeles blend from Naked Wines is rather...
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Vineyard Gazebo
Vineyard Gazebo The following morning, as I staggered bleary-eyed through the hotel tour, the manager with hand around my shoulders inquired how I had managed to get out of the hotel so early in the...
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Oh No Not Another Vineyard Shot
Oh No Not Another Vineyard Shot The same morning in Quinta do Portal as last weeks Sunday Wine Shot – Vineyard Gazebo. Further up the hill now, looking into the rising sun. By now the sun was up over...
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IVDP Library
IVDP Library The regulator and testing centre for all still and fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley is housed in a suitably majestic building in the heart of Oporto. The granite fronted...
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Quinta do Portal Douro Portugal
Quinta do Portal Douro Portugal On the flight home from Oporto, while waiting with increasing excitement the imminent arrival of the in-flight sandwich, I flicked through the TAP magazine. I had looked...
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Visiting a Port House: Ramos Pinto
Visiting a Port House: Ramos Pinto Just behind the lower end of the cable car ride in Vila Nova de Gaia stands a proud, mustard coloured building. This is the lodge for port producer Ramos Pintos. Not...
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