Unauthorized

This was intended to be a short introduction to my first article on the country. I think it’s anything but short. A lot has happened these past 11 years....

There are jewels scattered throughout this report. And there is a sprinkling from many categories, not just Vintage Ports, including some fine LBVs....

There are some great performances in this report and plenty of winery headliners. The year 2021 is going out with a bang, not a whimper....

This is a nice group of (mostly) new releases from Portugal, with Lua Cheia being the largest group in this report....

For the last Portugal report of 2020, it’s an eclectic mix filled with familiar names and icons, including some late-arriving (and famous) Portos....

This is just a small collection of offerings published now in the interest of timeliness, but there are some intriguing wines and well-known producers....

The Liv-ex Port 50 index, which tracks the price performance of the last ten physical vintages of the five most actively traded Port wines, has risen 15% over the past...

This report centers around Quinta do Crasto, one of the “Douro Boys” wine estates in Portugal. That’s not all we have, though. There are several other producers well worth a...

Here is my thesis, the key reason for this article: Colheitas are too often underrated and undervalued (perhaps more so in the USA than in other places like, say, Portugal...

This issue is unusually diverse, with lots of fine Ports vying with interesting new table wines. Plus, there are lots of new tawny releases. There are some LBVs as well,...