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 [...]

Results from Wine Competition Vinalies Paris 2011

Aragonez 2008 Gold Medal
Incógnito 2008 Silver Medal
Cortes de Cima Reserva 2008 Silver Medal

During Essencia do Vinho Oporto Hans and the ‘winesinger’ Charles Metcalfe drink Incognito to an Air de l’Incognito from OFFENBACH’s La Perichole.

“Outstanding quality and incredible values from Europe’s most dynamic wine country. Don Winkler and Mike Potashnik tasted close to 500 table wines for this report.” – i-winereview

From i-winereview’s list of Top Producers and Wines in Alentejo: Cortes de Cima Reserva and Cortes de Cima Incógnito.
“Cortes de Cima is a family [...]

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 [...]