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    “Portugal’s advantage in wine terms – its isolation, which has kept its inheritance of indigenous vine varieties intact and virtually unaffected by Chardonnay- and Cabernet-mania – has also been its disadvantage. The Portuguese have had this strange habit of… making wines to suit the palates of other Portuguese rather than making the sort of fruity, juicy-yet-structured wines that appeal to the majority of the world’s wine consumers. The wines that have traditionally been most respected within Portugal are incredibly tough reds that have typically spent rather too long in storage before being bottled and some slightly tired whites whose unfamiliar flavours may strike some outsiders as slightly rank. In fact Portugal has some first-class raw materials and is increasingly demonstrating the will and skill with which to transform them into exportable wines.

    It is so sad that top-quality Portuguese wine is not has much widely known and appreciated. Admittedly, the fact that Portugal now has such a vibrant wine culture (I’m told that something like seven annual wine guides are published in Portugal) has meant that prices for wines most highly regarded by the Portuguese have escalated, but these wines have such a strong personality, I don’t think any interested drinker should deny themselves the Portuguese experience.

    Portuguese wine is well placed to take advantage of current fashion for “heritage varieties.”

    1999… “The Alentejo Region, hot and dry, in the southeast, is perhaps the most promising source of accessible table wines, full-bodied, with intense colours… and this is without a doubt one of the most promising wine growing regions in the world.””
    by Jancis Robinson

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Danish Xmas Lunch

Winery Club Danish Christmas Lunch

Plan a weekend outing to the Alentejo in early December, and let us help you get into the Christmas spirit. We decorate our winery tasting room with scandinavian christmas elves, candles, and plenty of yuletide cheer, and open our doors wide to our Cortes de Cima Adega Club members for our annual Danish Christmas Lunch and wine tasting.

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 from our winery tasting room of the winter vineyard.We will also be offering tasting of the other wines on sale in our Cellar Door Shop, which will be open if you want to take some bacchanal Christmas presents home with you.

(See some fotos from past year’s annual Danish Xmas Lunch here on  Flickr or read about it here on our winery Blog. )

Winery Club Danish Christmas Lunch

12th December 2009

Danish Xmas Lunch Menu 2009

Variety of marinated herrings

Gravad Laks with dill dressing

Fried fish fillets with remoulade

Danish pork meatballs with cucumber salad

Homemade liverpaste with mushrooms and bacon

Roast pork with red cabbage

Cheese platter with fruit

Rice and almond pudding with cherry sauce (Riz à l’amande)

Wines served with  Xmas Lunch 2009

Courela 2008, Chaminé 2008, Chaminé Branco 2008, Cortes de Cima 2007, Syrah 2005,

Aragonez 2005

Wines only for Tasting

HCA 2007, Reserva 2004

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Price: 40€ (free for children: <10 years; between 10-16 years 50%), includes Buffet lunch, Wine, Water and Coffee served between 13:00-16:00 hours. (Also includes a surprise vinous Xmas gift  from Cortes de Cima!)

Payment: by bank transfer or by cheque in the name of Cortes de Cima, by 1st December.

Places limited!  Advanced bookings required by e-mail: jose(at)cortesdecima.pt or phone: 284 460 067.

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