Latest awards from London -
IWSC 2011 (Intl Wine & Spirit Challenge) – 4 Silvers, 1 Best in Class (Cortes de Cima Reserva 2008), plus 6 Bronze medals.
IWC 2011 (Intl. Wine Challenge) – 4 Silvers, 4 Bronzes and 1 Commended.
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The Portuguese are battering down for the economic storm – negative growth rates compounded with the tough medicine to be enforced by the EU/IMF austerity packet. Signs of the hard times are visible everywhere in our local community – shops and businesses closing, houses for sale, rising unemployment – with the certainty that it [...]
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We have felt the earth tremor numerous times during the few decades we have lived in the Alentejo, though thank god, never of any magnitude to cause material damage – not even a broken wine bottle! Most of the quakes have had their epicenters in Spain, Algarve, or off the south-western Atlantic coast. But we [...]
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All the abundant rain last winter has been a great help for our goal to increase our forested areas at Cortes de Cima by 25% this year. Since 1992, we have planted 90 hectares of mixed holm oak, cork oak, carob and pine in the areas surrounding our vineyards, fields which were once used for [...]
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From the Royal Opera Copenhagen mezzo soprano Ulla Kudsk Jensen will be returning once again, this year with the tenor Hans Lawaetz and Jacob Beck at the piano, to perform a marvelous array of your favorite melodies including Mozart, Schubert, Richard Rodgers, and Andrew L. Weber!
Chef Otto Bjarne will be serving his fabulous buffet dinner, [...]
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