Wine with Leslie: The best of Portugese wines - including a €13 rosé

My Portuguese wine selections this week are all fruit-focused and lively, and do not break the bank - a couple of the wines this week are available from TheAllotment.ie, a great online shop that will have Black Friday deals later this month.

Douro Valley, Portugal. Pic: iStock

I always feel that Portugal is a sort of brother nation to Ireland. Both countries have a long Atlantic coastline, we share a timezone, and we both have a big neighbour to the east of us that has not always been neighbourly.

I hear that Portugal receives more visitors from Ireland per head of population than from any other country, and anecdotally I don’t think I know an Irish person that hasn’t been there on several holidays.