New IVDP Confraria Leadership
The Confraria do Vinho do Porto has a new Chancellery, headed up by George Sandeman.
Madeira Disaster Relief Website
In February 2010 Madeira suffered flash floods and mudslides. FTLOP's Website of the Month is the Madeira Times Disaster Relief Fund Site.
Celebrating My Brother’s 50th
A Fiftieth birthday celebration calls for suitably decadent food and wine: vintage Champagne, fine old Burgundies and Bordeaux, and a 1908 Madeira.
At Home with Sophia Bergqvist
An eclectic, global menu with some interesting wine pairings for a well-travelled Douro wine producer and her importer.
Seattle Sommeliers & Madeira
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.
A Port Seminar to Remember
Roy is accustomed to doing Port seminars, but this one had an unexpected twist.
Viva Veneto!
Roy's wine tasting group spends a night in Italy, sort of: one Prosecco, two Soaves, and six Amarones.
2008 Port Harvest Tour – Part 2
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.
The Durand Cork Extractor
Roy Hersh of For The Love of Port trials and reviews the Durand Cork Extractor.
A Note on the Arquivo Histórico Casa Ferreirinha
Guest Author Josh Large describes the Casa Ferreira achives and his research there.