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Portugal's old-vine heritage

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Rather neglected so far in our reports on old-vine wines, Portugal gets the spotlight. See this guide to our old-vines coverage.

Tam writes When we published our old-vine wines series in the last quarter of 2022, I received a heartfelt email from Portuguese wine expert Sarah Ahmed, asking me why Old-vine wines Iberia featured only a couple of wines from Portugal. There are so many beautiful old vineyards making great wine, she told me, adding, 'I'm wondering if I can help redeem Portugal?!?!?!?' So I went to a tasting at Max Graham's Bar Douro in London, which specialises...