Author: Patrick Stuart

Dão winemaker Carlos Lucas makes some very interesting wines, mostly under the Ribeiro Santo label. One of his most unusual is called ET, with an image on the label depicting

Last Sunday I found myself in the newly-rebranded Auchan supermarket of the Aqua Portimão shopping centre. Not much has changed apart from the name (it used to be Jumbo) and

As I have written here many times before, I am passionate about the Baga grape and the Bairrada region. Baga is my favourite Portuguese red variety by far and a

Producing close to one million bottles of wine per year, the Fiuza winery located in the Tejo region, just inland from Lisbon, has long been known for its varietals made

Just outside the Alentejo town of Vidigueira, long famous for its white wine, lies the Ribafreixo estate. This winery represents one of the larger investments in modern winemaking to have

The phrase Manda Chuva in Portuguese translates roughly to the big boss, or he who sends rain, relating, of course, to God. Quite why the name was chosen for this

I was recently browsing the shelves of one of the larger Garrafeira Soares shops and found a decent selection of the whites from Quinta do Rol, one of my favourite

A few years ago, before the refurbishment of Faro airport, I wrote a pretty scathing article here about the then so called “duty free” shops located in the old departures