Author: Patrick Stuart

With the extreme temperatures we have been experiencing here in the Algarve over the last couple of weeks, well chilled dry rosés and crisp fresh whites tend to be the

What has happened to rosé wine over recent years has to be the biggest thing to change in the world of wine since that 17th century monk Dom Pérignon added

Built in the early 18th century Morgadio da Calçada is one of the most important manor houses in the Douro town of Provesende. The quinta has a long history of

These two wines, priced at €13.95 and €22.95 at Apolónia (Royal Palmeira and Quinta da Pedra respectively) are something of a departure from the norm when it comes to vinho

João Portugal Ramos is today one of Portugal’s great wine entrepreneurs. It all started in the Alentejo in the 1990s at his Vila Santa winery but he went on, over

So much has happened in terms of the Alvarinho grape in Portugal over the last 10 years or so that it is starting to get difficult to keep up. There

I would not normally focus my weekly column on a wine I myself consider to be somewhat overpriced, but what we have here is something totally different that deserves the

That most noble of Portugal’s white grapes Alvarinho is usually left alone these days to do its own thing as a varietal. In the native terroir of the Monção and

As any regular reader of this column knows, I am a big fan of the wines currently being produced in the Lisbon coast region, to the north of the capital.