Saturday 27th November 2010

Plan a weekend outing to the Alentejo in late November, and let us help you get into the Christmas spirit! Our Danish chef Bjarne Otto, will be serving a buffet of traditional Danish Christmas fare, served with a complete tasting of our entire range of currently available wines, while admiring the views [...]

Winemaker Hugo Almeida talking about barrelwork at Cortes de Cima Winery

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 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 [...]

Now with the Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009 and Global Warming very much in the headlines, we want to share with our blog readers how Cortes de Cima is acting green.  These are of course ongoing measures, and we are constantly striving to find new ways to save energy and cut waste in both the vineyard [...]