I was fortunate to be part of the group of 14 adventurous Portuguese winemakers who travelled to India in November, on our first forage into this promising new market. New Delhi, Goa and Mumbai were the venues of the biggest ever tastings of Portuguese wines ever to be shown in India.
“While presenting wines, Subhash Arora, [...]

“How well do Alentejan table wines age in general, and more specifically, Cortes de Cima wines age?” This is a question we are constantly asked, and one which lead us to decide to participate in a recent debut ‘Library Collection’ tasting, a new initiative organized by MWsTim Atkin and Charles Metcalfe. [...]

Now that our teenage children have left the winery to attend boarding school outside of Portugal, we seize any chance to arrange impromptu family gatherings, with all of us flying in from our different abodes, sic., wine fairs in Germany, tastings in Stockholm, winemaker’s dinners in Denmark. Last weekend was just such an [...]

Macau has long been a good market for Portuguese wines. The Portuguese first arrived there in 1550, and undoubtedly quickly passed their fondness for port and table wines to their Macanese hosts. Following the Chinese takeover in 1999, prosperity has grown in leaps and bounds for the 551,900 people. Today the [...]

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” BeBare New York has just recently passed (October 9, 2008) and it was a huge success! Rose Charities raised at least $35.000, with donations still coming in! Milk Gallery was a perfect venue, and the “buzz” in NY all seemed very positive.
All the reviews [...]

Our 13th harvest at Cortes de Cima started on the 25th August, and ended more than 6 weeks later on October 9th. A total of 938 tones of grapes were harvested, a reduction of 18% from 2007. The harvest workforce peaked at 70, 2/3 women and 1/3 men from the local villages.
Breakdown by [...]