Events
Wine tasting with NY Port Wine Lovers – Thank you Social Media
Exactly one year after we started talking about what was happening around us, here in our blog, I will share with you a good example of how wine social media can help to put together producers and consumers, eliminating any barrier between them. As those who follow this blog know, I’m currently in a 3 [...]
Summer wine tastings in the Douro Museum – come over and taste Quevedo’s
The Douro Museum is one of the most recent places of attraction for those who visit Douro. It was inaugurated last December, and since then it has received the attention of the local folks as well as tourists and researchers of the Douro Valley. During July, the Douro Museum is promoting wine tastings every week-end, [...]
Three-week trip to US – Wine Bloggers Conference and other Port Wine Tastings – here we go!
Today we will start a 3 weeks trip to the US. I’m traveling with Nadia and this intends to be a half vacation/ half business trip. I left the Douro last week, some minutes after recording the video of my last post. I spent a couple of days in Porto and then I traveled to [...]
New friends visiting our winery – Welcome The Port Forum and For the Love of Port
During the last week-end we received at our winery some folks with who I use to talk online while they share their knowledge about Port in the forum For the Love of Port and The Port Forum. As you can imagine, while sitting with people that love so much Port Wine like these new friends [...]
The First day of Vinexpo is Over – Not many people as expected
The first day of Vinexpo is over and I have to confess I was expecting more visitors. During the morning there were very few people. After lunch more people came over our stand to try our Ports and Douro wines. Our stand is integrated in the IVDP’s general stand as many others Douro producers. The [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Wine Bloggers meetings and conferences – from Online Conversations to Offline Tastings
My life has been changing a little bit since we started this blog, 9 months ago. The best part is that the subject you write about is related with wine, so it is not difficult to imagine how much fun you end up having. Some of the most interesting moments happen when we meet offline [...]
Sommelier Thomas Sommer tastes Quevedo Ports during Prowein
The 2009 edition of Prowein is over. From Sunday to Tuesday we made new friends and met a lot of people looking for more information about about Quevedo and its wines. Prowein is also a great event because there you have thousands of wines available for tasting from all around the world. You just need [...]
