Archive for November, 2008
6 Things You Don’t Know About Oscar Quevedo
I was recently tagged in an internet meme from Catavino, in which I had to write 6 things people would not know about me. I used to receive email memes in which someone would tell me that if I forwarded the message to some of my contacts I would receive a postcard, a call from [...]
Highlights From The Porto & Douro Wine Show
During this weekend, between 22nd and 23rd of November, Quevedo has been attending to the Porto & Douro Wine Show, in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is full of small and medium producers of Port and Douro wine. However, I must confess I was expecting some more sounding names. But they preferred to stay at home. [...]
Quevedo in Porto & Douro Wine Show
This week Quevedo is heading south, but just a little bit, to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Between the 22nd and the 23rd of November, this is, from Saturday to Sunday, will take place in Convento do Beato the Porto and Douro Wine Show. This event is being co-promote by the Douro and Port Wine [...]
Port Wine - Humans Best Friend?
Before I started drinking Port Wine, I associated it with a wine for special occasions. Back then, when I couldn’t even distinguish a Tawny from a White, I thought that drinking a Port required a group of moustache-cigar-pipe elders and an important decision to make.
Now, a few months after I dived in Port (and I [...]
Douro Red Wine Between The Top 10 Wines of 2008 for Wine Spectator
The top 10 wines in 2008 from the magazine Wine Spectator brought an excellent result for the Portuguese wines. The red Quinta do Crasto Reserva Old Vines 2005 ranks in #3 with 95 points from the magazine.
This is definitively an extraordinary prize for this dedicated family. But are also amazing news for the Portuguese wines, [...]
The Farewell from Belgium, Next Year A Bloggers Dinner
After had spent the last days in Belgium doing some wine tasting, Quevedo is back home and is now time to focus on the Christmas season, the most important for the sales of Port Wine.
These days in Belgium were really fruitful; we had opportunity to provide our wine for a tasting but also to taste [...]
Last days of Quevedo Port and Douro Wine Tasting in Belgium
These days Quevedo head up north in Brussels, Belgium, doing some wine tasting with our clients and with the clients of our clients. The tasting will end tomorrow, the November 11th. If you are close to Brussels and if you want to taste our Port Wine, our Douro Wine or even any other wine from [...]
Quevedo in Belgium
These days we are traveling in Belgium to do some wine tasting with our clients. Once a year, one of our clients, Roger & Luc De Smedt, a distributor located in Brussels, invites his clients for a wine tasting in a restaurant or a wine shop with the producers he represent and then finally at [...]
What I Use To Read In Internet About Wines
Internet is such a huge ocean that you can easily get lost. And even if you just want to look for wine related information you will have so many contents and you hardly know which site to choose. So I thought I could share with you what I use to read when I want to [...]
Quevedo was founded in 1991 as a family owned business in the heart of the Douro valley, responding to the needs of the generations that preceded the associate founders. These ancestors were passionately dedicated to their vineyards and to the culture that surrounded the production of wine. Consequently, the company was created as a seamless marriage between the initial phase of production and the promotion and selling of their wines. Currently, the estate is comprised of 100 hectares located in the regions of Cima-Corgo and Douro Superior, producing both red and port wines from only the five traditional port grapes Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão and Tinta Barroca. 