To try, buy and put by

TO TRY: Quinta do Vale Meão, Meandro Tinto, DO Douro 2016, €22.95 from Mitchell & Son autumn sale, CHQ, IFSC; Glasthule Road, Glasthule and at Avoca, Kilmacanogue, and at mitchellandson.com (91)

The Douro valley in northern Portugal is one of Europe’s last truly wild places. To reach some of the more remote valleys, you have to travel by car, abandon that, carry on by train and finally take jeeps to head out over ...