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 [...]

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 [...]

We have felt the earth tremor numerous times during the few decades we have lived in the Alentejo, though thank god, never of any magnitude to cause material damage – not even a broken wine bottle!  Most of the quakes have had their epicenters in Spain, Algarve, or off the south-western Atlantic coast. But we [...]

Our latest reviews and ratings (issue #193)  by Robert Parker (Mark Squires) – (for more complete reviews see blogpost).

89 Points - Touriga Nacional 2008 - ”Attractive, focused and intense, with a touch of vanilla, but good fruit and aromatics and lovely structure. Intense on the finish and with an obvious backbone, it shows an elegant midpalate followed by some punch and power. [...]

“Alentejo is not Portugal’s go-to region for Touriga Nacional, but increasingly Cortes de Cima is making some pretty nice wine here.” – Mark Squires, erobertpaker.com

Here are the latest reviews and ratings (issue #193)  by Robert Parker (Mark Squires) of a few of our wines, recently released or soon to be so -
89 Points Touriga Nacional 2008 - ”Attractive, focused and [...]