Learn the fundamentals of Tawny Port from expert Roy Hersh: what is it (in all its varieties), what are its attractions to the consumer and to wine service professionals, how to serve it, and of course as always, Roy offers tasting notes to bear out his points.
Frequent guest author Alex Bridgeman reports on a tasting of the full range of Taylor's Ports held at London wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd.
The Confraria do Vinho do Porto has a new Chancellery, headed up by George Sandeman.
In February 2010 Madeira suffered flash floods and mudslides. FTLOP's Website of the Month is the Madeira Times Disaster Relief Fund Site.
A Fiftieth birthday celebration calls for suitably decadent food and wine: vintage Champagne, fine old Burgundies and Bordeaux, and a 1908 Madeira.
An eclectic, global menu with some interesting wine pairings for a well-travelled Douro wine producer and her importer.
Roy leads an intensive introduction to Madeira for Seattle's top sommeliers, featuring eight bottles of Madeira to show the range of possibilities for Madeira in a restaurant setting.
Roy is accustomed to doing Port seminars, but this one had an unexpected twist.
Roy's wine tasting group spends a night in Italy, sort of: one Prosecco, two Soaves, and six Amarones.
The 2008 Harvest Tour visits the Symingtons in Gaia, the cork makers Amorim, and then heads up to Régua. Dow's Vintage Port and Quinta da Pacheca wines featured.
