Who Is Oscar Quevedo?
Almost three months after we have started blogging, is probably time to write a bit about myself. I should first start to say that my parents decided to give me the same first name of my father. Thus, both of us are Oscar Quevedo and, as you can imagine, it is not unusual to have some confusion with people thinking they have been contacting to one of us when they were indeed speaking to the other.
So, I am Oscar Jr., I was born in 1983, in Viseu, Portugal, city where my parents had lived for some years before I had come to the world. But the really town of my life is S. João da Pesqueira, as we like to say, the heart of the Douro Valley. Almost all my youth was spent there, between vines and barrels, where my parents, my grandparents and my great grandparents have been making Port Wine.
In 2001 I went to Porto for the University. I studied Economics in the University of Porto until 2005, when I started my career in finance in the Portuguese bank BPI. One year later I went to the center of the Europe to work also in Finance in Switzerland and I am now working in Madrid, Spain.
These five years I lived in Porto marked a special period of my life, where I lived through really amazing experiences. I had the opportunity to make very good friendships (Bruno and Pedro who are also blogging here are just a small example). But the University also stands out because was during this period I started to understand the business of my family. I figured out wine is not just romance as you also have some drama and pain. I also started to drink wine more often and not just in the special moments I was used to drink when living with my parents.
I started to miss the Douro and to feel I just was fulfilled when was walking through the vines or riding the bicycle uphill and downhill. Even nowadays is hard for me to spend more than one or two weekends away from my little town. My friends say I love it because I am not living there. Well, I have to find it out!
Oscar Quevedo
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Parabéns Óscar por mais um excelente post. Apesar de já te conhecer pessoalmente fiquei ciente de mais alguns pormenores. Fico a aguardar o próximo posto do vosso blog. Um abraço desde o alentejo.
Olá primo, muito bom post, estas palavras por ti escritas assentam na perfeição, na pessoa que tu és.
Fazes parte das principais recordações da minha infância,
das brincadeiras na Pesqueira.
Confirmo, se assim o posso dizer, a tua paixão desde pequenino pelos vinhedos,tractores e uvas.
Um abraço do primo Quevedo Pereira, do tamanho do Atlântico que nos separa.
André
Oscar,
Great post, I would have loved to have grown up the area where you’re from, which I have still yet to visit since moving here! Now I have even more of a reason to go there soon other than the amazing wine, my love of mushrooms and I have been craving to cook a wonderful mushroom risotto with some wild Portuguese mushrooms and do an article for Catavino about my whole experience 
If you could point me in the right direction of exactly where to go in Douro to hunt for mushrooms and where I can find a guide of specifics so we don’t pick poisonous ones that would be great! Also, where would be an inexpensive place to stay for the weekend and of course, how to find Quevedo and some of your other favorite wineries to explore 
Andrea
Caro Oscar Quevedo, antes demais… Parabéns, pelo magnífico projecto, pelo trabalho, por gostar do Douro e pelo blogue.
Comecei por conhece-lo: primeiro pelo Forum da RV, depois pela peça na TV e por ultimo pelo seu blogue (impecável).
Eu também sou,
Jovem (?)(41 anos)…, mas não tão jovem como você.
Licenciado na área da economia…, mas não na FEP.
Também recente viticultor…, mas não tenho essa grandiosa exploração, nem faço vinhos.
Apaixonado pelo Douro…, mas a Quinta no Baixo Corgo
Também decidi fazer um blogue sobre o meu (pequeno) projecto…, mas é comparável com o seu.
Bom,
Oscar Quevedo existem de facto algumas semelhanças entre nós, gostaria conhece-lo pessoalmente, para podermos trocar sabedorias, experiências e expectativas sobre este assuntos da vinha e do vinho.
O Douro precisade gente como você!
Vou estar atento ao seu projecto…
Obs: Se achar oportuno, consulte o meu blogue e diga alguma coisa.
Cumprimentos para si, e para toda a familia.
António Vicente
Olá António,
Muito obrigado pelo comentário! Claro que tenho todo o prazer em conhecê-lo, aqui na Quevedo ou na Quinta das Parcelas. Aliás já conheço alguma da história da sua quinta através do seu blog http://quintadasparcelas.blogs.sapo.pt/
Fique com o meu email oscar arroba quevedo ponto pt e dê noticias.
O Oscar é uma excelente pessoa e faz um incrivel trabalho na promoção dos Vinhos Quevedo.
Um abraço.
Parabéns, Oscar.
Gostei, muito, mesmo muito de saber do teu envolvimento, directo, no vosso projecto.
Benvinda
Oscar Jr! It was fantastic to meet you and taste a couple of your family’s amazing wines at LIWF!!! I look forward to the next time we are able to meet! Hope all is well and best of luck to your family and the vineyard! Your wines have life and are truly delicious!! Cheers!
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. 
Mensagem fresquinha!!!
Já eram horas de apresentar o responsável do blog.
Dou desde já os parabens pelo trabalho, está muito bonito.
Acho muito bem mostrar o que é “Nosso” e que por vezes não damos valor ao que de tão bonito temos na nossa terra.
E tinhamos que ser as primeiras a comentar (mami)!!!