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Que será Syrah

In 1991, we were the first ones to plant Syrah in the Alentejo, choosing rootstock from southern Rhone clones.   We produce two pure Syrah varietals in our range. The ‘reserve’ quality which is specially bottled under the ‘Incógnito’ label, and is only bottled in exceptional years, and a less concentrated, more popular wine, labeled as [...]

Conversations with Hans in Oporto - Part IV - Incógnito and Reserva

(During Carrie and Hans Jorgensen’s recent passage through Oporto, I had the opportunity, after a pleasant dinner at the local restauranta Casa Aleixo, to exchange a few words with Hans about the wines of Cortes de Cima. It’s based on this brief conversation that I wrote these texts, divided into 4 Blog posts, with short [...]

Conversations with Hans in Oporto - Part III

(During Carrie and Hans Jorgensen’s recent passage through Oporto, I had the opportunity, after a pleasant dinner at the local restauranta Casa Aleixo, to exchange a few words with Hans about the wines of Cortes de Cima. It’s based on this brief conversation that I wrote these texts, divided into 3 Blog posts, with short [...]

Bottling with Mozart

For pure entertainment, I mixed some bottling footage with a recording from our Summer Vineyard Concert 2009, with the performers from the Royal Opera Copenhagen Ulla Kudsk Jensen and Hans Lawaetz singing Papageno from the Magic Flute and Mats Knutsson at the Steinway, proving that bottling can be fun! Enjoy!

Bottling without Mozart

Bottling is a long task in a winery our size. It takes months on end, and can seem never to stop. At the moment we are bottling Cortes de Cima 2008, and when that is finished we start on Chaminé 09, and the list goes on and on…. Although it is a rather monotonous task to [...]

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