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    “Portugal’s advantage in wine terms – its isolation, which has kept its inheritance of indigenous vine varieties intact and virtually unaffected by Chardonnay- and Cabernet-mania – has also been its disadvantage. The Portuguese have had this strange habit of… making wines to suit the palates of other Portuguese rather than making the sort of fruity, juicy-yet-structured wines that appeal to the majority of the world’s wine consumers. The wines that have traditionally been most respected within Portugal are incredibly tough reds that have typically spent rather too long in storage before being bottled and some slightly tired whites whose unfamiliar flavours may strike some outsiders as slightly rank. In fact Portugal has some first-class raw materials and is increasingly demonstrating the will and skill with which to transform them into exportable wines.

    It is so sad that top-quality Portuguese wine is not has much widely known and appreciated. Admittedly, the fact that Portugal now has such a vibrant wine culture (I’m told that something like seven annual wine guides are published in Portugal) has meant that prices for wines most highly regarded by the Portuguese have escalated, but these wines have such a strong personality, I don’t think any interested drinker should deny themselves the Portuguese experience.

    Portuguese wine is well placed to take advantage of current fashion for “heritage varieties.”

    1999… “The Alentejo Region, hot and dry, in the southeast, is perhaps the most promising source of accessible table wines, full-bodied, with intense colours… and this is without a doubt one of the most promising wine growing regions in the world.””
    by Jancis Robinson

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Harnessing the Alentejan Sun

“We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.” – Pres. Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
The timing is of course, merely coincidental, but as Pres. Obama was inspiring not just the American nation but the entire world to ‘think green’,  we are excited to report that [...]

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Ecos de Terras de Vera Cruz

Em Abril do ano passado tive a oportunidade de participar no “Passeio Enológico por Portugal”, organizado anualmente pelo nosso importador luso-brasileiro Adega Alentejana, que nos representa de forma brilhante num enorme mercado, que continua em franca expansão apesar das adversidades. Em apenas 10 dias levámos os nossos vinhos a sete magníficas cidades, entre as [...]

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Robert Parker The Independent Consumer’s Guide to Fine Wines

Cortes de Cima Chaminé
2005 Vintage – Rating: 84 Drink: 2007-2009
2006 Vintage – Rating: 86 Drink: 2007-2009
Cortes de Cima Cortes de Cima
2002 Vintage – Rating: 84 Drink: 2007-2009
2004 Vintage – Rating: 86 Drink: 2007-2011
2005 Vintage – Rating: 87 Drink: 2008-2012
Cortes de Cima Syrah
2003 Vintage – Rating: 85 Drink: 2007-2011
2004 Vintage – Rating: 88 Drink: 2007-2014
2005 Vintage [...]

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Snowy Alentejo

Not even the Alentejo was spared from the recent coldsnap to hit Europe. Following a spell of nightly frosts of up to -4º, we awoke on Saturday to a beautiful winter wonderland sight of the vineyards covered by a white blanket of snow.
As you can imagine, snow is a rarity at Cortes de Cima. The [...]

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Cortes de Cima Dinner at Restaurante Pátio Andaluz

No passado dia 13 de Dezembro de 2008 teve lugar, no restaurante Pátio Andaluz em Coruche, um jantar com degustação de vinhos das Cortes de Cima.
Este restaurante abriu recentemente, inspirado numa filosofia diferente, pois está vocacionado para servir tapas e petiscos, dando verdadeira importância à harmonia entre o vinho e a comida. Bem hajam por [...]

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