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    “I believe that if Portugal puts its strengths first, if producers follow the lead of the great partisans of their regional wine, the artisans working with ancient vines, the curators of old mixed varietal plantings, the growers producing astonishing and graceful single vineyard wines, if commercial producers creatively build on these regional traditions rather than model their wines after the New World, the long term growth of Portugal’s wines in the US market is assured.

    Few countries, if any, can compete with Portugal’s treasure of varietal diversity and the territorial diversity that sustains it. Certainly, the production of single variety wines is part of the process of understanding that diversity. But the real asset, the value in that varietal diversity, is the complexity of the blend.

    American wine drinkers are more likely to find consistency buying regional blends than varietal wines from range of different Portuguese regions. Top quality regional blends as well as entertaining, creative riffs on these traditional wines will educate consumers and serve to build brand Portugal. My advice: Sustain the priceless diversity in your vineyards and use it to produce the refined and elegant wines that have made Portugal famous for centuries. The 21st century will be better for it.”
    by Joshua Greene, Editor and publisher Wine & Spirits Magazine
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Wine Culture in Hong Kong

30 some odd years ago, I visited Hong Kong for a brief 24 hours, enroute San Francisco, my previous home, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to where I was moving. I knew at the time, that I was doing the fascinating Chinese harbour city an injustice to spend so little time there, but I was in [...]

Bjarne Otto’s Olive Oil Christmas Cake

Due to popular demand, Chef Bjarne Otto has agreed to share his recipe for his special Cortes de Cima Olive Oil Christmas Cake. The cake was a big hit last weekend, at our annual Danish Christmas lunch and wine tasting, which took place for Adega Club members here at the winery tasting room.
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A weekend of ‘Jul’ in the Alentejo

Last weekend, with stormy wintery weather bringing some much-needed rain to fill our damns and irrigate our fields, we decorated our winery tasting room with scandinavian christmas elves, candles, and plenty of yuletide cheer, and opened our doors wide to our Cortes de Cima Adega Club Members for our annual Danish Christmas Lunch and wine tasting.

Chef [...]

There’s no rest for the wicked!

Last October, no sooner were we wrapping up one harvest (grapes), putting away the harvesting buckets and sheers away for another year, than we had to get out the nets and long wooden poles and turn around and start on another (olives)! When the olives start to change colour from green to black, is [...]

Cortes de Cima 90 points in Montreal

Montreal has been for many years, our largest export market. It is said that Montrealians are very fond of their wine! We just received this report from our importer there -
“Hello! Here, we had two storms this week so there is a lot of snow!
There is a nice article written by Nick Hamilton. This guy [...]

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