Heartache and angst were involved in the creation of this review of deliciously diverse Portuguese wines.
Earlier this year I took a day away from editing the next edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine (2023) to attend the busy and exciting ViniPortugal tasting in London. At the end of a long, inspiring and exhausting day, for reasons too dull to divulge, my notes went up in a puff of smoke. (Mac users will know what I mean when I say it was like removing an icon from the dock but sadly more permanent and far more upsetting.) This technical...