“Vintages can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards,” to paraphrase philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Synopsis: Harvest 2011, our 16th harvest. Another record winter rainfall. Record tropical heat in May. Record early start to harvest. Superlative summer and harvest weather. Harvest quantity – up. Harvest quality – above average.
For the second year running, we had an [...]
5th August was a record early harvest start at Cortes de Cima, with the first lot of Gouveio grapes arriving at the winery. Now 2 weeks on, we have picked batches of most of our other white wine varieties -Verdelho, Viognier, Antao Vaz, Alvarinho and Sauvignon Blanc.
This year for the first time, the largest [...]
July is here, and with it the vineyard enters the last homestretch of final ripening before all those grapes hanging out there eventually become bottled as Vintage 2011! Soon we will hang up our ‘Gone Fishing’ sign and head off to a beautiful, rugged Portuguese Atlantic beach for some pre-harvest battery recharge. But first [...]
The Alentejan spring weather this year has been dramatic and erratic, with warm, balmy spring weather interrupted by spells of cold and rain, highlighted by periods of thunder storms, tremendous lightning strikes, hail and strong rainfalls. During one particular dramatic moment, our house suffered a direct hit, knocking off mortar and tiles from the roof, [...]
We have now completed the months long task of pruning, but our winter vineyard work is still not over. As we await the unfolding of the 2011 growing season, the workers are doing another round through the vines, to position and tie up the lateral cordons along the trellis wire (110 mm from the ground). At [...]
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