I visited Portugal and was lucky enough to be the guest of Ramos Pinto in 2005.
My friends and I above Bom Retiro

I, and an intrepid gang of wine industry friends, explored all four of the vineyards owned by Ramos and saw the port lodge in Porto. It was an amazing experience, one I won’t forget. We have had a long-standing relationship with the port house. Dad has been stocking the products for 20 years but that didn’t stop me from not knowing nearly enough about the product, or …

A long time ago, on my return from New Zealand, I thought that the Wine Bar was in a wonderful position to give people information about wines and decided to go though our list and rewrite it in a clearer format. This would be more of a tome that contained a paragraph on each wine with a label by the side and maybe a few pieces of information and quotes we had picked up along the way.