One of Portugal’s top sommeliers Manuel Moreira shares his insight with us into the great diversity of Portuguese wines and why its regions are world-class. In this casual interview at a wine bar in Porto, we ask Manuel what excites him about Portuguese wines and how …
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Bordeaux’s en primeur week has always struck me as something of a mystery, and perhaps a little old-fashioned. The idea of evaluating wines before they are ready, putting a price on them prematurely and forming an opinion before you’ve even spat the wine into …
Sometimes a visit into wine country is ultimately about indulging – and a trip to L’And Vineyards in Portugal’s Alentejo couldn’t be anything but. This vineyard came onto the map as such because of its kitchen – where an innovative young Portuguese chef created …
What are the different styles of Port, and how do you make them? Having made Port for the best part of 25 years, Portuguese winemaker Nicholas Delaforce knows a thing or two about Port. I interviewed him from the balcony of Niepoort’s Quinta de Napoles …
Mauro Von Siebenthal is a man of fine tastes: he knows all the scores of Beethoven, has a penchant for oil paintings and has been collecting Bordeaux wines since before he was old enough to drink. Born and raised in Switzerland, he spent the first half of …
This week I headed out to the Uco Valley in Mendoza to visit one of Argentina’s most modern and architecturally striking wineries – Bodega Diamandes. It’s always a pleasure to visit the beautiful Clos de los 7 estate in Vista Flores, especially on a gorgeous …
When I was invited to taste the Grandes Pagos de España, or ‘great wine estates of Spain’, it sounded like a promising offer. Grande always sounds good and I was vaguely aware of what a Pago was. But there’s a bit more detail behind the proposal. Put …
David Howell is one of the authorities on Napa geology and he explains how Napa Valley is a very young wine valley, with its geological formation only happening in the last few million years and creating three distinctive soil types. In this exclusive 80 Harvests interview, the geologist and …
The Douro Valley is a wine region that combines both tradition and innovation, according to seasoned winemaker and winery manager Christian Seely. In this Christian Seely interview, we discuss the terroir of the Douro; traditional vineyard management and winemaking techniques as well as innovative ones; and …
Garage wine is a trendy term that gets thrown around a lot, but – in my experience at least – in Argentina and Chile it doesn’t exist as much as you’d expect. Or at least, the producers of truly garage wine are rarely worth …