Time to visit and taste
With many of the Algarve’s wineries now reopened for visits and tastings and very few tourists on the ground, there has never been a better time to discover Algarve wine.
A new launch from Quinta dos Vales
Continuing my focus on Algarve wines in this column, here is something totally new on the market from Quinta dos Vales, one of the Algarve’s top producers of high-quality wine.
Three takes on the Algarve’s native grape
The unusual Negra Mole grape was once the most-grown variety in the Algarve, making the vast majority of the light, fruity but rather rough wines that used to be sold
Support (and respect) your local restaurants
With many restaurants finally reopening next week, in the face of severe financial hardship (see the cover story in this week’s edition), it is time for us local residents who
Sauvignon Blancs from the Algarve
Following on from my column last week encouraging readers to support local producers and buy Algarve wine during these difficult times, I decided to dedicate my column for the coming
Time to drink local
This week, rather than my normal column highlighting a specific wine from somewhere in Portugal, I decided to send out a short message to my readers, many of whom may
Almost an orange wine, from the Vinho Verde region
This is a white that breaks all the moulds of what most consumers would associate with the Vinho Verde region. What we have here is a deep straw-coloured and full-bodied
A top Bairrada white from Niepoort
VV, standing for Vinhas Velhas (old vines) and made from the traditional Bairrada white grapes Bical and Maria Gomes, is the premium white of Niepoort’s Quinta de Baixo winery in
A top-shelf treat during lockdown
I had to think twice about parting with €39.95 for this bottle of Dão, but after a few weeks of not being able to go out for dinner due to
What’s behind the mask?
Volta Face red and white New in at Apolónia, this very unusual label depicting a carnival mask in gold for the red and silver for the white caught my attention