Author: Patrick Stuart

As we enter the festive season and we are all thinking about what to drink with our friends and relatives, can I ask you, dear reader, to spend a little

The wine of Herdade do Sobroso keeps on impressing me. This huge 660-hectare (over 1,600 acres) estate is high on my list of places to visit in the Alentejo and,

Anselmo Mendes is one of the great names in modern Vinho Verde, meaning great white wines made mostly from the Alvarinho or Loureiro grape in the Vinho Verde region. I

Beaujolais Nouveau is a fairly recently discovered pleasure for me. Having lived most of my life in Portugal, it is not something that was available to me during my formative

Any regular reader of my column will know that I am a die-hard fan of the Dão region. And if any one grape comes to mind when talking of Dão,

I wrote a while ago here about the impressive, lightly oaked white wine made by this relative newcomer to the Algarve winemaking scene, and have since tried the red (also

When it comes to Dão, a reliable guarantee of quality is anything made by Álvaro Castro, the winemaker who owns and operates both Quinta da Pellada and Quinta de Sães.

I spent a few days in the UK last week and decided to do a bit of research into the Portuguese wines readily available to the UK consumer. I had

Quinta da Boa Esperança is located to the north of the Lisbon wine region, close to Torres Vedras, and this is the first of their wines that I have seen