We are very lucky (again) to have a really good selection of barrel samples from the most recent Vintage Port declaration, the 2016. We are therefore offering customers who are considering buying any of the 2016 Vintage Ports the chance to come and taste the samples with us at Fareham Wine Cellar. A perfect opportunity […]
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 […]
Navazos Niepoort Joint Venture
Navazos Niepoort This an interesting wine. Now there’s a understatement. This is a joint venture between Dirk Niepoort, of Douro wine and Port fame, and the Spanish company Equipo Navazos who are a top end Sherry negociant buying and selling barrels of Sherry. It is said that this wine is a good representation of how […]
Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé
Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé Today I received in the post a bottle of Mayfield Expression Brut Rosé which was my prize for my suggestion for the name of Albion for a name for English Sparkling Wine in a competition run by wine educators Susie and Peter. You can read my reasons if you follow the […]
2012 Christmas Wine Tastings
We have three Christmas Wine tastings coming up on the first three Saturdays of December. The first of these is a Port tasting with a selection of six different Ports including two Single Quinta Ports (Quinta do Bomfim 2001 from Dow and Quinta do Passadouro 2000 from Niepoort) and and a Vintage Port – Warre […]
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 […]
