Quevedo Port Wine » Recipes | Port Wine Producer in the Douro Valley of Portugal http://quevedoportwine.com Port Wine Producer in the Douro Valley of Portugal Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:00:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Sparkling Quevedo Rose Port Sangaree http://quevedoportwine.com/sparkling-quevedo-rose-port-sangria/ http://quevedoportwine.com/sparkling-quevedo-rose-port-sangria/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:09:13 +0000 http://quevedoportwine.com/?p=3145 READ MORE]]>

What you will read next is probably the best ever recipe for a Rosé Port cocktail. The first and only time I tried this cocktail was in Salt Lake City, two weeks ago, on a hot Summer evening, right before starting what we think was the first ever Port Wine tasting, with winemaker present, in Utah. By the way, this somehow far state in the west of the US is a great place, beautiful landscape and really nice people. Put in on your places to visit next time you travel to the US.

And now it comes the recipe for three drinks; add to the shaker:
  • 4.5 oz (130ml) Quevedo Rose Port
  • 0.75 oz (22ml) Agave syrup
  • 6 dashes aromatic bitters
  • a bit of nutmeg grate
  • cubes of ice
  • add CO2 – this is the tricky part, I don’t have a carbonated cocktail system to add CO2 to my cocktails, and probably, you don’t have it either, so just use some carbonated water instead
to the glass:
  • squeeze a peel of lemon
  • once done with the CO2, pour into the glass (or add a splash of carbonated water)
Tasted and approved by our importer for the US market Peter and Michael Grisley from P.R. Grisley, who set up a great Port Wine tasting dinner on that night!

Try it at home, even if you are not able to add the CO2 and leave your comments. Other Rose Port cocktails available at C. da Silva – Dalva Port.

Oscar
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Quevedo with tonic

I probably have to apologize to those more conservative about Port. To those more liberal, I must confess and share my experience. I am not quite sure if this is the best place to talk about cocktails with Port, but as we promised to share all our wine related experiences in the Quevedo’s web, I cannot turn back now (though I hope my father does not read this!).

Well, last week we had some friends at our place and we handled a wine tasting before dinner. We had finished the dessert and we were wondering about what to drink next. It was a warm and very dry night. We started with wine and we wanted to finish with wine. Wasn’t 82 ºF enough to forget Port? No, not enough. I looked at the fridge and could find some cans of tonic. In the shelve there was a bottle of Quevedo Reserve Ruby almost full. Maybe you are asking yourselves “is not Portonic with dry white Port?”.

Are you sure you can drink tonic with a ruby Port? (someone asked me). Yes guys, lets put it together. Ice, a lot of ice, 2/3 tonic and 1/3 of Port, this order. My first impression was quite tough: this is not Port, is like a random cocktail I could find in the worst bar. I am killing my business. But then, maybe 5 seconds later, people started to say: “not bad”, “I could order this in a disco”, “ohh, it is cool”. And I also started to like it. We discussed for some time and we concluded that this could be a nice drink to young people.

I will try again!

Óscar Quevedo

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