EVENT SOLD OUT with Matthew Nutt of John E Fells @ Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham [Maplink] Wednesday 11th October 2017 7.30pm Prompt Start Tickets £10.00 per person in advance only. (£5 back off any orders placed on the evening). The Symington Family are one of the largest and most important producers of Port wines. […]
2015 Vintage Port Offer & Tasting 25th July 2015
As anyone who follows Vintage Port will know, 2015 was a good vintage, a handful of Port houses declared a main vintage, but it was nowhere near a general declaration. This is mainly because Port Houses do not generally like to release two vintage Ports in adjacent years and most are holding back for the […]
Grahams Vintage Port Bond
The Grahams Vintage Port Bond is available to buy at Fareham Wine Cellar. Edit 22/06/17 – Also available to buy by the bottle – coming soon. One of the things I am often asked about is supplying wine or Port for Christening or wedding gifts. This can be tricky thing to do when someone wants […]
Mouchao
Herdade do Mouchao Mouchao is available to buy at Fareham Wine Cellar. Mouchao Tinto is the flagship wine from historic Alentejo wine estate of Herdade do Mouchao. The estate can trace its beginnings back to the early part of the 19th century when Thomas Reynolds moved to the Alentejo from Oporto to begin working in the […]
Raymond Reynolds Wine Tasting
Raymond Reynolds Wine Tasting Spring 2014 Tuesday 4th March 2014 @ Vinoteca, Beak Street, London The UK wine trade’s favourite specialist Portuguese wine importer, Raymond Reynolds Ltd., held a couple of Portfolio wine tastings this year, one in Manchester, and the other wine tasting in Vinoteca restaurant in London – I was lucky enough to […]
What is the White Paint on a Port Bottle?
At Fareham Wine Cellar we sell quite a bit of Port from Ruby all the way up to Vintage, old Colheitas and Tawnies. One of the things I am often asked about is as to why is there a blob of white paint on the Port bottle. Indeed, some customers have refused to buy a […]
A question about Port wine?
I recently found out that I am considered a bit of an expert about Port wine by the website that measure social media impact, Klout – which made me chuckle. This was brought to my attention with the arrival of a question from another Klout user in my inbox, and was a surprise to me! […]
Niepoort Colheita Ports
N.B Please check here for current vintages of Niepoort Colheita. We have just taken delivery of a couple of new bottlings of Niepoort Colheita Port, the 1986 and 2001 vintages. A Colheita Port is a Tawny (i.e a wood-aged, rather than bottle-aged) Port from a single vintage that has to be aged for at least […]
2011 Vintage Port Tasting
2011 Vintage Port Tasting A tasting of 2011 Vintage Port barrel samples at Fareham Wine Cellar on Thursday 6th June 2013 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Ports on show were, 1. Smith Woodhouse 2011 2. Quinta do Roriz 2011 3. Cockburns 2011 4. Offley 2011 5. Ferreira 2011 6. Sandeman 2011 7. Churchill 2011 8. Quinta […]
2011 Vintage Port Barrel Sample Tasting
Fareham Wine Cellar 2011 Vintage Port Barrel Sample Tasting As anyone who is interested in Port probably knows by now, the most recently declared vintage, the 2011, was a universal declaration. When all the Port houses agree like this it can be taken as read that the vintage is normally very, very good. Please have […]
Niepoort 2011 Vintage Port
Niepoort 2011 Vintage Port Reflections of the Niepoort and Ramos Pinto Vintage Port Masterclass at the Big Fortified Tasting 2013 at the Glazier’s Hall, London. A short film from Niepoort with from Jancis Robinson MW, Julia Harding MW, Charles Metcalfe, Richard Mayson and others.
Fladgate Partnership 2011 Vintage Port
Fladgate Partnership 2011 Vintage Port This morning I was lucky enough to try three of the 2011 vintages Ports on offer from the Fladgate Partnership – the Croft 2011, Fonseca 2011 and Taylor 2011. The general view is that the 2011 vintage Ports will turn out to be very good, classic Ports and it is […]
Mixed Case of Wine – Fareham Wine Cellar Selection
Mixed Case of Wine @ Fareham Wine Cellar A mixed case of wine makes a great birthday or Christmas present, especially if you are stuck trying to find a wine gift for a wine lover. Or perhaps you need a corporate wine gift and know the recipient is a bit of wine buff. Mixed wine […]
Grahams Tawny Port – New Packaging
Grahams Tawny Port At Fareham Wine Cellar we stock Grahams Tawny Ports as out 20, 30 and 40 year old Tawny Port of choice. However, we stock the Niepoort 10 year old as our 10 year old Tawny Port – its a long story. Sometime in 2012, Grahams repackaged their Tawny Port range into to […]
Niepoort Charme 2006
Niepoort Charme 2006 Niepoort Charme is Dirk Niepoort’s homage to red Burgundy and, as this article reveals, La Tache in particular. The challenge Dirk faced was to make a aromatic, fine red wine in the hot Douro valley. To achieve this Dirk picks the grapes early and does not de-stem the grapes. The grapes (a […]
Luis Pato Rebel
The Rebel Winemaker Pato Rebel is made by Luis Pato at Quinta do Ribeirinho, in Bairrada, where the Pato family have been making wine since the 18th Century. Luis Pato is a maverick, ground breaking and imaginative wine-maker who took over from his father Joao Pato and made his first wine, a pure Baga, in […]
Conceito Bastardo
Conceito Bastardo is available to buy here. The two women behind Conceito Vinhos are Carla Costa Ferreira and her daughter, wine-maker, Rita Marques Ferreira. Conceito Vinhos consists of 3 properties in the Douro Superior which total some 79 hectares. Rita Marques Ferreira has studied enology at the University of Bordeaux with Denis Dubourdieu, has worked […]
Quinta de Macedos
A Small Douro Wine Estate in the Rio Torte Valley See Quinta de Macedos and our other Portuguese wines at Fareham Wine Cellar. Quinta de Macedos is a Douro Wine Estate located in the heart of the Rio Torto Valley (a tributary of the Douro). Owner Paul Reynolds bought this 7 hectare vineyard in 1998 […]
Post Scriptum de Chryseia
New Vintage from Prats and Symington – Post Scriptum de Chryseia, Prats and Symington, Douro, Red, Portugal. Post Scriptum is a wine produced in the Douro. A World Heritage site and one of the oldest established wine-producing regions in the world, the Douro valley is, without doubt, one of the most distinctive terroirs in the history […]
