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 […]
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 […]
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 […]