What is Baga all about and why does it suit the Bairrada terroir? We find out with one of Portugal’s most famous wine producers – the Luis Pato wine family. The Pato family have been making wines for several generations, but Luis Pato changed the …
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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 …
If your idea of Beaujolais is an area that produces “gluggable, inconsequential” wine, you should think again. Thus argued renowned wine critic Jamie Goode at a recent Beaujolais event in London. He points to a whole new generation of innovative winemakers looking to make …
The Douro is easily one of the most spectacular wine landscapes in the world… The Douro river snakes its way through the valley where vines and stacked stone terraces appear to almost tumble down dramatically steep schist hillsides, the very sight of which induce …
Rías Baixas is practically synonymous with Albariño, and it’s not hard to see why. With the greatest concentration of Albariño vineyards in the world, Rías Baixas DO is considered the birthplace of this unique Galician variety and Albariño still reigns supreme as the main wine made in …
Lavaux is one of the most striking wine regions in Switzerland with dramatic vineyards dropping off into Lake Geneva and facing France to the south. Over 800 hectares of continuous vineyards are blanketed on the steep hillsides beside the lake and vines have been …
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 …
English sparkling wine has been hitting the headlines for the last few years as a worthy rival to Champagne, but how does it fare compared to marginal regions in the New World? Winemaker Emma Rice has made sparkling wine in Tasmania and Canada, as …
South America’s wine regions don’t ever sit still. They are constantly on the move and in the last two decades we have seen several new wine regions emerge in previously unimaginable locations: the Atacama desert, Patagonia and in the heights of the Andes mountains …
The extensive and hugely varied Loire wine region can be difficult to get to grips with, so we’ve put together this Loire Fast Facts feature to provide a clear insight into the region and its wines. As it’s such a large and diverse region, …