Archive for May, 2009
What Comes to your Mind when You hear the word “Azores”?
When somebody says Azores I think about green land, cows, milk, blue beaches with dark sand, bananas and pineapples, massa sovada and bolo lêvedo and FAMILY! Yes, I have family in São Miguel, the biggest and more developed of the nine islands of the archipelago. Just Santa Maria is not exclusively from volcanic origin,but also [...]
How Many Grapes are there in a Bottle of Port?
This is simple Port mathematics! Let´s do it step by step: Port wine is 80% the best must from the Douro and 20% brandy; a bottle of 0.75L of wine requires roughly 1 kg of grapes, whereas brandy, a distilled drink, is much more demanding: 7 kg per liter!
Well, imagine a bottle of 0,75 lt; [...]
Winery Bloggers Meeting at Vinexpo - Offline Events do not Stop
One of the most important wine fairs is around the corner. I am talking about VINEXPO, the French most important exhibition will take place in Bordeaux, from June 21st to June 25th 2009. Though some people say that VINEXPO is losing influence in the wine business, we decided to attend for the first time ever. [...]
International Forum: “Hear to Integrate” and a Quevedo Special Reserve Tawny Port for the Opening Session
AMI, a Portuguese Non-Governmental Organization, will set up a forum denominated “Meeting of Cultures - Hear to Integrate” from May 21st to May 24th 2009, in Lisbon, in the facilities of the ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute. This event marks the XXV anniversary of the institution and has the collaboration of Fundación Academia Europea de [...]
Quevedo’s 2007 Vintage Port Declaration
This last year has marked me a lot. Many things have been happening in Quevedo and with me. Everything started when we decided to accept Catavino’s challenge and set up the first blog of a Port Wine producer. With that our lives started to be filled with different routines, writing posts and participating in the [...]
Roy Hersh Visiting Quevedo during The Fortification Tour of May 2009
As I wrote some posts ago, during the next months we here at Quevedo will have some offline meetings with people we use to have online conversations with.
The first of this meetings was with Roy Hersh, who come to the Douro for the Fortification Tour. Fortification Tour consists in a trip organized by ForTheLoveOfPort, with [...]
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. 