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Silvers and Best of Class in London

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.
Full details here.

Local solidarity in hard economic times

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 [...]

About Earthquakes and Dams in the Alentejo

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 [...]

Reforestation of the Alentejo

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 [...]

9th Annual Summer Vineyard Concert – June 17th

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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