Family
João Quevedo, on the right: He is the patriarch of the Quevedo family. João was born in 1915 in Porto, where he spent part of his youth. He studied in Porto and also S. João da Pesqueira. He started working in the Tax Office of Vidigueira, a small town in the middle of Alentejo, where his son Oscar was born. Later he moved again to S. João da Pesqueira. Since he got married his preferred hobby was to help his father and his father-in-law in the vineyards. As soon as they could, he and his wife Josefina bought some vineyards and later inherited some more from his father, António Quevedo and his father-in-law Raul Gouveia Costa. João has been also dedicated and committed to the production of olive oil from the beginning.
Oscar Quevedo, on the left: He was born in 1946 in the village of Vidigueira, Alentejo and studied in S. João da Pesqueira and Coimbra, where he got a degree in Law. Then he worked as a notary and lawyer and in 1977 he and his wife, Beatriz, decided do go to S. João da Pesqueira to start producing grapes. In 1991 they built the winery from where all the Quevedo wines come from.
Claudia Quevedo. She is the winemaker of the family since 1999, after obtaining a degree in Enology in Vila Real. Before starting in Quevedo, Cláudia did a stage program in Barros & Almeida (acquired in 2006 by Sogevinus). She loves very old Port Wine aged in oak! She has a daughter, Beatriz.
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I am an importer of portugees wines (and food-products) in Belgium.
I am in the board of Ordem dos Companheiros de São Vicente - Confraria dos Vinhos
dos Vinhos de Portugal asbl Bruxelles and I like also old Portwines.
During the “vendanges” in the Douro-valley we are comming to the Douro-valley
with a wine-trip organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Brussels.
Como prometi vim ver o seu blog. Parabéns pela inovação. Fiquei curioso com os rótulos interactivos. O vinho não conheço mas irei procurar e provar aqui por Viseu.
Cumprimentos e prazer em conhece-la.
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. 
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