Survives on Wine
Join me as I write all about Portuguese grapes, wine, wine travel and more. I even do a series where I pair wine, a recipe and an album together, but not how you think!
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Aug 24, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 18, 2026
Latest issues
A Thank You, Two Free Portuguese Wine Maps and a Drink for Summer (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I realize I don’t write much about this, and more and more of my readers are asking me to. I disappear sometimes due to health reasons. I’m a Hodgkins Lymphoma survivor. Cancer left me with chronic nerve damage, physical limitations, a breathing disease, and a whole lot of other issues. I won’t go into it here now, but the reality of life now is that some months I physically cannot function. Simple things like typing, holding a pencil, and making food are far too much. I have to decide what I ca
ManzWine Pomar do Espírito Santo Reserva 2020 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="Visual wine tasting note for ManzWine Pomar do Espírito Santo Reserva 2020, a red blend from Cheleiros in Portugal’s Lisboa wine region." class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_RlD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_aut
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.