Vineyards
Quevedo Hosts the First Live 2009 Harvest in the Douro
Quevedo, Port and Douro wine producer, is streaming live the harvest in its vineyards in the Douro to a wine tasting room in London. The live video will be shown next Tuesday, September 22nd 2009 in a big screen of the Boutique Wineries Tasting’s (BWT) main room. At the same time, all the video streaming [...]
Harvesting white grapes for Port and Douro wine
We have been dedicating the last 48 hours, this is, this last week-end, to the harvesting of white grapes. Every year we spend a whole weekend only harvesting white grapes. This year the harvest started 16 days before the one last year as the ripening accelerated during August. In order to maintain the freshness and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Overcrowded bunches of Touriga Franca – risk of decay
Very good weather conditions during the flowering (warm temperatures and slow wind) originated a high rate of fertilized berries. This situation seldom occurs because during the month of May temperatures are unstable and there’s a high probability of rain. This year, nearly all of the flowers of our bunches were fertilized. This becomes a big [...]
The weather is worrying us, we are not ready for an attack of mildew
During the last weeks sudden weather changes have affected the vinegrowing of the Douro Valley. The last days of May were warm and not windy at all, which is perfect for pollination. We were really happy because we thought we would not need to spray our vines and therefore we could minimize the use of [...]
Colder Days have been Holding Up the Vine Shoot
This picture was taken last Saturday, April 25th in Quinta da Trovisca. Due to the cold days and nights during the last weeks, the shoot seems to be delayed compared to last year’s. There were some sunny weeks at the beginning of April but the temperatures are now lower and with some risk of raining. [...]
Quevedo visiting Quinta de Ervamoira owned by Ramos Pinto
A couple of weeks ago I spent a nice week-end with some friends in Foz-Côa. This city, located in the Douro Superior, is known as the capital of the almond trees, which are very beautiful during the flowering period. Foz-Côa got some international attention in the last years because during the 90s there were found [...]
Grape Vine Pruning – First Step to Have a Good Harvest
We would like to share with you how we prune the vines of our vineyards. We use to start pruning early January and it lasts until beginning of March, depending mainly on the altitude of the vines. The prune is very important for the preparation of the following harvests. We have a conservative approach, looking [...]
Estudos Durienses – Are we using the Appropriate Varietals in the Douro Valley?
I am currently reading Estudos Durienses, a book about the Douro Valley in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book is from an unknown writer in a study made for the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1782, 201 years before I was born and many many years before any Quevedo wine was made. I found [...]
