It all began in the restaurant business from the age of 26. Straight out of culinary school, and then earning a Hotel & Restaurant Management degree which landed me an excellent job in NYC. I was Back-of-House Manager at The Water Club. A sophisticated eatery where high rollers of New York came to dine, knowing [...]
Port Personalities In Focus is proud to introduce you to Marta Lourenço. This FTLOP Series has become vital in our mission to introduce readers to members of the Port, and Portuguese wine trade. In Focus brings you candid comments, personal perspectives, and a better understanding of the people inside the Portuguese wine trade: from sales [...]
Roy explores Portuguese history and how the Methuen Treaty, the relationship between the Portuguese and the English, and the demarcation of the Douro shaped the Port trade.
Observations of Madeira, the island, did not begin for me in the mid-1990’s as did my early tasting adventures with the eponymous adult beverage. It took another dozen years before I was finally able to visit the island in person. My tour business partner Mario Ferreira and I began hosting Portuguese wine tours in 2005, [...]
My first overseas flight of the year, Portugal of course, but somehow this one was very different. I was not heading over for wine tasting, nor a wine tour. I was flying to Porto, to find a new place to live … a new home. This was a first, and I was unable to sleep [...]
In this fine very brief video, Adrian Bridge, CEO of The Fladgate Partnership, (Taylor's, Croft, Fonseca and Krohn) speaks about the extremely high quality level of our Portuguese Wine Tours. He especially focuses in on the unique style of our tours, in his positive off-the cuff-remarks. Worth watching if you are [...]
My overall impressions after tasting a dozen LBV Ports is based on the 2015 vintage quality as well as the common thread that ties these Ports all together. The commonality of course is that 2015 is right up there beside the quality of 2016 and close to 2017, the latter of which I believe [...]
Two half centuries of Port a 2-part series and the first half was filled with oldies, the 1920’s through 1960’s. Part 1 can be found here. It is known that over the course of recent centuries, there have been on average three Vintage Port declarations per decade. If you could afford a bottle from the [...]
Two half centuries of Port is a 2-part series and the first half is filled with oldies. It is well known that over the course of history, from the time that Port was fortified, there has been an average of 3 Vintage Port declarations per decade. But in those decades what are the gems to [...]
Photo Source: Upsplash.com Article by Rebecca Siggers © June 2020 Portugal’s drinking culture is known for its etiquette, as there is never any real impetus to get drunk. The drinks are savored with each sip; no wonder some of the best cocktail recipes come from the Portuguese. The individual wines and Ports are [...]
