“Last year Vini Portugal invited us to taste the wines of Portugal at their source. The result was our Report The New Wines of Portugal. Based on our visit to every major wine producing region of the country and after tasting over 500 wines, we’ve selected our top 50, organized by their region of origin.
Cortes [...]
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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 [...]
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OPUS VINO – MORE THAN 4,000 OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST WINERIES AND THEIR WINES
“CORTES DE CIMA – Owned by Hans Jorgensen, a Dane, and his Californian wife, Carrie, Cortes de Cima has for some years been one of the most modern and forward-thinking estates in the Alentejo. Based in Vidigueira, it has over 250 [...]
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Here are the latest reviews and ratings (Portugal Issue# 195) by Robert Parker (Mark Squires) of a few of our wines, recently released or soon to be so -
90 Points - Reserva 2008 - ”It is a lovely wine, seductive and caressing on the palate, graceful, focused and lingering, with reasonably ripe tannins. This is usually Cortes de [...]
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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 [...]
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