The winery is a buzz of activity as we are busy preparing once again for our Summer Vineyard Concert, when the echo of Danish opera can be heard against the backdrop of the verdant summer vineyard.  The lovely mezzo soprana Ulla Kudsk Jensen will be returning this year accompanied for the first time by the tenor [...]

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!

To Ulla, Hans and Mats – ‘Thank you for the music!’-  for bringing your music all the way from the Royal Opera, Copenhagen to the verdant Alentejan plains!  An event which symbolized a unique marriage of classical music and wine, realized in a beautiful, green summer vineyard setting.
Mezza-Soprana Ulla Kudsk Jensen and Pianist Mats Knutsson have performed [...]

We would like to send a special thanks to Ulla Kudsk Jensen – Mezzo Soprano, Jesper Buhl – Baritone, and Mats Knutsson on the Piano- from the Royal Opera , and from the Fynske Opera,for once again returning to Cortes de Cima to make our Annual Summer Vineyard Concert a unforgettable evening of [...]