The Wine on Wednesday

• Dinamica Baga 2023, Filipa Pato & William Wouters, Bairrada, Portugal – This is a delicious, fresh, light, lively wine with wonderful pure black and red cherry fruits. There is a savoury element, and a minerality but the overall impression is one of clean ripe fruit. This is fantastic value for money. I imagine it would go well with pork dishes and charcuterie as it has the […]
• Vintage Port 2022 – I received these three samples from Taylor’s a few months ago, tasted them, but never posted my notes. If you have a child born in 2022, you could buy a case for her or him. Even if you haven’t, they are worth buying. While all three are approachable now, they will last for twenty years, […]
• Bodegas y Viñedos de Ponce Manchuela – I recently spent a few days in La Mancha, the world’s largest vineyard with over 150 thousand hectares of vines. To put it in perspective, La Mancha has more land under vines than all of Australia. At one time it was the source of much uninspiring bulk wine or distilled into brandy, but there are […]