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...
UPDATE: Congratulations to our lucky winner – Andy Griffiths who signed up at the Myddleton Road Market. Six bottles of delicious Portuguese wine are heading your way. We are giving away free wine to one lucky winner in our World Cup Competition. Despite being...
The temperature is rising and joy is all about as spring is most definitely in the air! To celebrate spring we are giving away a bottle of Lago Cerqueira, a delicious Vinho Verde with all orders of 11 bottle of wine or more before the end of May. Our Vinho Verde...
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...
Day 18 Quinta da Calçada Exuberant Another wine from the Vino Verde region, a blend of Alvarinho, Loureiro and Azal. No oak used in the making of this wine so it produces a very fresh style of wine (dare I say it has exuberance?!). Crisp fruit notes of citrus and...
Day 15 Kasta White A really popular and very approachable white wine from the Douro. A wine blended from classic white grapes from that region, Viosinho, Rabigato and Gouveio. A lovely mouthfeel with tropical fruit and peach notes and a pleasant finish. Nicely...
Day 12 Velhos Tempos This is from the Lisboa region, about 60km to the east of Lisbon. Made from 100% Arinto, it has an unusual but pleasant aroma, with very crisp, lovely, sharp citrus notes, and a slight mineral quality. Well balanced and a surprisingly easy drink...
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 3 Calcada Sparkling From the Vinho Verde region but something a bit different. They call their sparkling wine espumante. A blend of Arinto and Loueiro grapes, it has a smooth finish and is wonderfully well balanced. None of the acrid dryness of a Cava at this...
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...
Our amazing wine advent calendar has a new home! Ambassador Pat has taken on the challenge of drinking (at least) a bottle a day for the month of December and he will be sharing his adventure on the blog. We can’t guarantee daily updates during what is our...
