“Hi Cortes de Cima,
I want to thank you for your generous wine donation to the Rose Charities “Rose Dinners” events we hosted this summer. They have been extremely successful; so far we’ve raised almost $3,000 and still hope to have one or two more dinners this year. Your donation was crucial to these fundraising efforts [...]
Last month I was travelling in Asia with a group of winemakers participating in the International Wine Challenge Asian Trade Tastings, and everywhere talk was of the upcoming Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival. This is a popular Chinese lunar harvest festival, held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, (this year [...]
Q: What do you get when you mix IT geeks, wine lovers, wine bloggers, and a few wine producers into a crowded room in Belem, Lisbon and feed them with a plethora of ‘pasteis de nata’ rinsed down with Chaminé?
A: a very contented bunch of VinoCampers during their coffee break!
Q: What is VinoCamp ?
A: An [...]
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 [...]
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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