Wine

The Alentejo Regional Wine Commission has posted a 27% increase in wine tourism in 2023 like-for-like on 2022. Comissão Vitivinícola Regional Alentejana (CVRA) says that this uptick is down to an [...]

Portugal’s wine promotion organisation ViniPortugal has been carrying out a roadshow in the United States to drum up business and awareness of Portuguese wines. The US market grew 9.4% in the [...]

It’s not every day you get the chance to sample exquisite port wines that are a hundred years old or more. Essential Lisboa was invited by the oldest port wine brand in the world, Kopke, to taste [...]

The President of ViniPortugal, Frederico Falcão has blamed inflation, interest rates, the cost of living crisis, two wars, and the economic instabilities faced by families for the fall in [...]

Wine production in Portugal for the 2023-2024 grape year has increased by 10%, with production particularly up in the Azores, Lisbon, Bairrada and Trás-os-Montes by as much as 20%. This is [...]

Law firm EDGE is to act on behalf of The Fladgate Partnership for the purchase of three estates from Ideal Drinks. The wine estates involved are: Quinta da Bella in the Dão, Quinta Colinas de São [...]

The average price of a litre of wine sold in Portugal in he first half of the year increased both in restaurants and retail outlets in the first half of 2023 by a total average of 7%. The reason [...]

Portugal’s Alentejo region is expecting a better than average wine harvest this year with output expected to be up to 10% higher on last year with an estimated 112 to 118 million litres of wine [...]

Portuguese and Greek wines are the ones to look out for according to the online site from top UK wine critic Jancis Robinson. In an article posted on May 20, the newspaper weekend supplement and [...]

Since it was purchased in 2013 by French entrepreneur Philippe Austruy, Quinta da Côrte has focused on exclusive premium wines produced at vineyards around a luxury boutique guesthouse, where [...]