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Douro river is rising – dams can’t sustain all the water
How many of you can recognize this road? And how many of you know where this dam is located? It has been raining a lot here and the soils can’t absorb more water. So all the water goes down the hill, quickly reaching the streams that take the water to the Douro river. Is this [...]
The snow is again in the Douro – bring the skiis, we have some nice slopes
The snow is covering the Douro valley of white. Beautiful scenario in a very cold and rainy Winter so far. At the same time, these cold temperatures are helping in the clearing of the wines. But enough is enough and also our pet thinks we don’t need more cold. Spring, we are all waiting for [...]
Our vineyards flooded
Although feasible, I swear we are not spending our time on fish farming nor growing rice in our vineyards. The responsible for this scenery is the heavy rain that has been falling during the last weeks in the Douro. Even though it is absolutely necessary as the vines need to accumulate reserves for the upcoming [...]
Rose Port: many consumers loved it but some still say this is not Port
It is time to ask for your opinion. Six months after we have first released our Rose Port and 3 months after we had run out of it, Rose Port is controversial. Many people think Rose Port was a great idea. But there are still some more conservative enthusiasts who defend Rose Port is not [...]
Hey Santa Claus, there are 10 things you can bring me over
It is Christmas time and as far as I know Santa Claus is already on his way to Linhares de Ansiães, the small village in the Douro valley, where my grandparents from my mom’s side were grown and where I will have the Christmas dinner. I don’t like to ask for anything, specially because I [...]
Snowing in the Douro right before Christmas
We are white again!!! After two days of low temperatures and very cold winds, it snowed in the valley. All happened tonight, probably between 1am and 6am. I don’t know exactly, as I decided to go earlier to bed so I could have time to read the addicting Port and the Douro by Richard Mayson. [...]
Quevedo is participating and live broadcasting Adegga Wine Market
Today, Tuesday December 8th, if you are in Lisbon and you want to enjoy a glass of wine, I would strongly suggest you to go to Adegga Wine Market. The venue is the Teatro Aberto located in the Praça de Espanha and you can find there 20 wine producers, from all around Portugal and many [...]
Tasting Port Wine and Douro Wine in Hong Kong
I will start this post asking you where in the earth have you seen a video like this. Do you remember? Thank you regular reader of this blog. You are right, it was a couple of months ago and at that time we made a Summer Quevedo Port Wine tasting in Denmark. This one was [...]
Visitng Amorim’s factory; the problem of TCA in the wine
During the last weekend it took place in Lisbon the second edition of the European Wine Bloggers Conference. As it had happened last year, I had a lot of fun, I met bunches of new people and drunk many many Portuguese wines. Later this week I’ll make another post with my thoughts about the the [...]
Fermenting 5 varietals separately for Port Wine; showing all the process live
Saturday we harvested the grapes, we crushed it and trod it. Are are showing all the process here. What you are seeing is the Touriga Franca fermenting. Wednesday, October 1st: All the musts were already fortified. I will come back soon with more news about this.
