Results just in from the International Wine Challenge – UK 2010

Silver Medal Syrah 2007
Silver Medal Petit Verdot 2008
Silver Medal Homenage to Hans Christian Andersen 2008
Silver Medal Touriga Nacional 2007
Bronze Medal Chaminé Branco 2009
Bronze Medal Chaminé 2009
Bronze Medal Syrah 2008
Bronze Medal Aragonez 2007

Results just in from the International Wine Challenge – UK 2010

Silver Medal Syrah 2007
Silver Medal Petit Verdot 2008
Silver Medal Homenage to Hans Christian Andersen 2008
Silver Medal Touriga Nacional 2007
Bronze Medal Chaminé Branco 2009
Bronze Medal Chaminé 2009
Bronze Medal Syrah 2008
Bronze Medal Aragonez 2007

And now for some ‘old’ news and some ‘new’ news!  First the ‘new’ news is that we have  again entered the 2nd edition of the IWC Wine Library Collection tasting, or now with a new fancier name,  The Octavian Vaults Library Collection(2009), and once again for 2nd year running, come out with high marks on [...]

As we launch our most recent vintage 2007 of our flagship Cortes de Cima wine, it causes me pause to reflect on the decade which has passed since we first starting marketing our wines from Cortes de Cima.  The reviews our first vintages – 1996 and 97 – received in the Portuguese press were, to [...]

The 2008 harvest weather was the finest in memory, and it is no coincidence, why in our opinion, we feel the  Chaminé Tinto 2008 is one of the best red Chaminés to date!  Blended from ripe Alentejan fruit (49% Syrah and 45% Aragonez),  the aromas are subdued but open up to reveal red berry fruits, [...]