As you can tell from our extensive coverage on this site, and most recently from this wine of the week, we are fans of Portuguese table wines. The category of ambitious Portuguese red table wines that has the strongest identity is Douro, the unfortified wines of the dramatic valley that is responsible for port.
Almost all port producers now make Douro table wine, some of them some exciting dry whites too, and some of the younger wine producers in the Douro make only table wine. AXA's Douro outpost Quinta do Noval is no exception and nowadays between 25 and...