Back-to-Back Vintage Declarations for Port We’re always looking out for vintage declarations for Port wines and we were fortunate enough to have two back-to-back declarations in 2016 and 2017. It’s incredibly rare to have back-to-back declarations but conditions were...
Girls, stop everything you’re doing right now and listen up. Dry January… if you succumbed to it..is over! But the diet plan is still in place right? The bikini body has 5 months to surface and it ‘aint going to happen by itself. Well I’m here to tell you...
The stock market has crashed, the Pound has plummeted and the country is being torn apart. Yep, it’s armageddon!! Or maybe it’s time to open a bottle of Portuguese wine and try not to panic. The future is always uncertain and things tend to work out ok in...
It looks like we have finally shrugged off the chills of winter and are heading to towards a beautiful, long hot summer. Well that is the dream anyway. Regardless of the weather, we will be supporting the Myddleton Road Street Market this Sunday and the first Sunday...
Free wine if Portugal wins the Euros. With England crashing out of the European Championships in the usual, humiliating fashion, we have turned our support towards Portugal (sorry Wales). You should too, because if Portugal win the Euros, we are going to give you £50...
As regulars to our site will know, the Myddleton Road Street Market holds a special place in our hearts. Not only was it the first market we ever did but it has consistently been the most welcoming and fun. There’s a very special vibe as the locals are so friendly and...
It looks like we have finally shrugged off the chills of winter and are heading to towards a beautiful, long hot summer. Well that is the dream anyway. Regardless of the weather, we will be supporting the Myddleton Road Street Market this Sunday and the first Sunday...
On the 4th of June 2016 we were delighted to provide the wines for the wedding of Dave and Marina O’Connor – good friends of Drink Portuguese Wine. The wedding was a fantastic event held in the beautiful town São Martinho do Porto on Portugal’s Silver Coast. The day...
Day 9 Pinta Negra I want to take some credit here. I went with Simon and Spike to the London wine fair in April this year and afterwards I insisted they should have this wine on their site, so you could call this the ambassador’s selection! I think my faith has been...
Day 6 Dona Louise Now we’re talking! Lemos are my favourite vineyard of all the ones the guys import from. From the Dao region, this is the area I call the Burgundy of Portugal (in that their wines are as good, but the same quality is a tenner or more less than you...
Day 22 Quinta de Lemos Alfrocheiro With all this Lemos you are spoiling me! Another dark, good bodied wine with aromas and flavours of blackberries and other dark fruit and spice notes. Hand-picked grapes again matured in French oak for 18 months this has a lovely...
Quinta das Condessas An entry level wine from the Douro. It’s what you expect from reds from that region, being blended from those grapes that you get in a port. Really full bodied with strong dark fruit notes. Nice and punchy (warning; this is 15% volume). Smells and...