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 [...]
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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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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.
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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 [...]
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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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