The exciting if daunting responsibility of choosing 50 top Portuguese wines falls to me this year, as Jancis reported here, following in the footsteps of Tom Cannavan of wine-pages.com. This made me all the more eager to see which wines Tom had chosen – from over 1,000 wines he has tasted over the last 12 months – and to taste the final line-up presented in London recently. The phrase 'top 50' has to be used carefully since the selection is supposed to be personal; it's not an impossible quest for THE top 50 wines in Portugal. A great...
20 Jun 2011