Text Sarah Ahmed
Since 2011, it has been my great privilege to Chair the Portugal panel at Decanter World Wine Awards (“DWWA”), which lays claim to being the world’s largest and most influential wine competition.
Text João Barbosa | Translation Jani Dunne
There’s a topic my family keeps going back to, which is memory. It’s a stubborn term, a byzantine discussion…
Text José Silva | Translation Jani Dunne
Douro Superior still remains a mostly inhospitable mountainous region, where river Douro provides truly astonishing views of an almost suffocating, breath-taking beauty.
Text José Silva | Translation Jani Dunne
It may belong to a big French drinks producer and distributor, but this is a very successful Portuguese company.
Text Ilkka Síren
Lovebirds. The most delightful poultry of them all. Sparkling wine has been the lovey-dovey drink of choice since pretty much forever.
Text José Silva | Translation Jani Dunne
Portugal is the greatest producer of corks (for bottles) in the world, as well as one of the biggest producers of cork.
Text Ilkka Sirén
It was the summer of 2009. I was working in Bierzo, Spain as a cellar hand / vineyard mule. For me it was like a dream come true.
Text Sarah Ahmed
In my last post about the Douro I urged you to “seek and ye shall find,” for no other Portuguese region can surely boast such a rich diversity of terroir?
Text João Barbosa | Translation Jani Dunne
Wines can be classified as good or bad, those with stories and those without, those which have history and those which don’t. Only good wines reach this last level. Longevity allows for historical stories.
