Archive for August, 2009
How well Danish people pronounce “Quevedo”?
Since a couple of months ago, we have our Port Wine available in Denmark. Although this is not a very big market for Port Wine, the Dannish have the tradition of drinking Port Wine as a desert wine or with the coffee. Moreover, they have a good knowladge of the different types of Port and [...]
2007 Vintage Port Declaration - The opinion of Roy Hersh
When I was in Sammamish, Seattle, I was lucky enough to visit the private cellar of Roy Hersh. While I was contemplating some big Port Wine treasures, I asked Roy to share with us his opinion about the 2007 Vintage Port declaration. At the very end of the interview, the memory stick ran out of [...]
And finally… the rain came to the Douro
After one week of hot temperatures, it finally rained in the Douro Valley. It stormed heavily on Saturday noon, for around 4 hours. I’m not sure if the rain caused any damage to the vines or to the bunches, but I would say no.
I think this rain can help to slow down the ripening process, [...]
Some great Port Wine treasures kept secretly in American private cellars
A couple of weeks ago I was in Seattle. There were some good excuses to visit Roy Hersh:
1. to check if the weather in Seattle is so gray as people say?
2. does Roy have any other bottle in his private cellar besides Port Wine?
3. is Boeing developing a seaplane specially adapted to the hills of [...]
How is the upcoming harvest showing up?
What a big surprise I got yesterday evening. For the first time this year, we decided to pick up some grapes to analyze its ripeness.
The weather is now warming up, the temperatures in Quinta Vale d’Agodinho oscillate between the 25º C (77ºF) before the sunrise to around 42ºC (108º F) at 2pm. But the weather [...]
Tasting Port Wine in Seattle with local Sommeliers at over 35º C (95º F)
During the last week after the Wine Bloggers Conference, I flew to Seattle to visit Roy Hersh, from FortheLoveofPort. Right after my arrival, we made a sightseeing tour through the Public Market Center and after that we rode the duck, a fun trip in a bus-boat around the center of Seattle, including a diving in [...]
Press Club San Francisco - a new wine experience
After a week-end in Napa and Sonoma at the American Wine Bloggers Conference, we spent a day of sightseeing in San Francisco. Everything was much better than I had imagined it… Alcatraz (which brought all the stories I’ve read back into my mind), the San Francisco Bay (with bikes and rollerbladers all around), Pier 39 [...]
Wine tastings in Douro Museum
On July 25th Quevedo did not only participate in the American Wine Bloggers Conference, but also showed its wines in the tastings organized by the Douro Museum in Régua, Portugal. The last three weekends, this museum had space dedicated to the wine producers of the region .
This weekend Quevedo was featured. In addition to learning [...]
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. 