Archive for October, 2009
Our new brand of still wine: Oscar’s is born!
Dear readers of our blog, we have come up with a new idea. Something about wine, of course. We wanted to create a new wine, more informal and modern that the wines that we have at Quevedo. Something easy-drinking and fruity, probably not traditional and responsible enough to have it under a Quevedo brand. Its [...]
Vintage Port 2007 General Tasting at Palácio da Bolsa, Porto
Yesterday Quevedo attended a tasting of Vintage Port 2007 for the Portuguese press and trade in the Palácio da Bolsa, in Porto. The tasting, organized by the IVDP, by the Porto Wine Producers Association and by Essência do Vinho, got together around 50 producers only for tasting their Vintage Ports 2007.
I had already tasted some [...]
10 Ways of Celebrating the end of the Harvest
After picking up the last grapes, in Quevedo we are planing to do some activities to relax our muscles after the hard work. For those who have never harvested in the Douro, these may seem extreme sports; for us are a just a fun entertainment:
To swim in the Douro river against the flow, towards its [...]
The Harvest 2009 is over - some thoughts in the aftermath
Dear readers, the harvest is over. Finally! After six weeks picking up grapes at the vineyards and making wines at the winery, the hardest period of the year finished on Monday. For now only in the vineyards, because at the winery we still have some musts fermenting and some juicy to fortify.
Some thoughts about 2009 [...]
Godfrey Spence in the Douro talking about the harvest 2009
Today I met Godfrey Spence, a leading British wine educator, in the Douro. We talked for a couple of hours about Douro, Port and a little bit of everything. It was a very interesting chat. A big pleasure for me. At the end I asked him to share with us what he thinks about the [...]
Single varietal Port experiment - it we get something excellent we will bottle it!
Some of you have probably noticed while reading our blog. We are making some experiments with single-varietal Port Wine. I’m sure many other producers have already made it. Maybe you have already tasted a single-varietal Port. But for us at Quevedo is the first time we are making it in a full dedicated way. And [...]
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. 