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Graham’s Port owner buys vineyard outside of Douro

Port and table wine producer Symington Family Estates has ventured outside the Douro Valley with the purchase of a wine estate in the Alto Alentejo area of southern Portugal ... of the Alentejo’s ... read more

Port Powerhouse Looks Beyond Douro

Leading Port producer Symington Family Estates ... of Douro table wines in the late 1990s, the new investment is an estate in the Alentejo. The Alentejo, in the south-central part of Portugal, is ... read more

Symington: Cheap Douro wine is doing serious damage

Cheap Douro wine sold at discount retailers in the UK is doing “serious damage” to the industry, according to Paul Symington of Symington Family ... said: “Port volume sales are in decline, which is ... read more

Blandy family buys back Madeira Wine Company from SFE

The Blandy family has ... in the business. Symington will also continue to distribute MWC’s Madeiras through its associated distribution companies, including John E Fells in the UK, Premium Port Wines ... read more

Portugal’s Quiet Revolution

Bruno Prats, whose family owned Cos d’Estournel in Bordeaux, has teamed up with the Symington Port family to make Chryseia, a top-end Douro red table wine. “Portugal ... the southern Alentejo also ... read more

Portugal's mellow revolution - vineyard to glass

In the Wine Spectator magazine’s latest list of 100 best wines, Portugal took the top position with a port and No. 3 and 4 with two reds. Cortes de Cima winery in the Alentejo region ... is the Porto ... read more

Symington Estates to uncover Douro’s best grapes

Although Quinta de Ataíde is not home to Portugal’s only library collection of native grapes – the Alentejo ... Symington Family Estates select the best grapes for its range of sites along the Douro, ... read more

What climate change means for the wine industry

As the great Californian wine ... southern Chile is proof of the possibilities. Port producer Paul Symington spoke gloomily of “the existential threat” posed by climate change to wine production in ... read more

Portuguese wines have grown up. Here are nine smart buys

Post Scriptum comes from a joint venture between Bruno Prats, the long-time former manager of famed Château Cos d’Estournel in Bordeaux, and the Symington family behind such blue-chip port brands ... read more

Alentejo: learn why you should head to Portugal's new enotourism jewel

The wine region is making a steady way to get international recognition, not only for the wine, but also forEnotourism. Unlike Douro, where the grapes of Port are ... surfing or family vacations, like ... read more

Cornerstone Communications, Ltd. to Represent Esporao Wines

Esporão was launched in 1973 when co-founder José Roquette acquired the Herdade do Esporão in the heart of Southern Portugal's Alentejo region ... wines: Assobio DOC Douro and Quinta dos Murças ... read more

Cornerstone Communications, Ltd. to Represent Esporao Wines

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - The Esporão Group, Portugal's leading producer of high-quality wines and olive oils, announces the selection of Cornerstone Communications, Ltd. as ... the ... read more