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I believe his bottled port comes from Messias, so I assume that's where the bagged stuff comes from too. The cave/cellar bit is perfect on a cold winter's day, some of the wines are good but port is a tad limited in selection. Very good cheese though! This is very weird. Port in bag from Messias? I...

Hi Glen, the bottle you had from Gonçalo is the official Quevedo Vintage 2007. But at the time we sent the bottle to Vinologia, right after bottling, we did not have the labels printed. So we sent draft labels on for them to introduce the wine at the bar. Julian, if we will release a Quevedo Vintage...

Decanted at noon, and not properly tasted then. But a grumble. Oscar : why the unbranded corks? In eighty years, when a lonely bottle is found at the bottom of my recently-deceased descendant’s cellar, the purchaser(s) might never know what it is. ‟Very fine”, they’ll doubtless think, ‟but such a ...

I don't know how much it fall. We don't have any station to control that and as it was overnight I don't know for how many hours it rained. The baumé dropped for 0.3 degrees, which is bad but not dramatic.

We have 80% of the harvest done. By next Tuesday it should be finished! Hopefully!

I would say that all the grade A vineyards were already harvested. We are now finishing Quinta da Trovisca, which is a grade B vineyard. And we are now starting to rush as the weather seems to be changing. I'm afraid of your projections Tom. It seems they are right. The sky is cloudy tonight and may...

The Malvedos team is making a great job sharing their activities on a daily basis! I'm enjoying it

Send me some :wink: , or point me to your US distributor and you could have some more happiness :sun: Moses, the US distribution is an unresolved business! I would rather have you tasting it at our winery. Sooner or later you have to come here!! ... meeting a nice girl from a fantastic Vintage who ...

The weather in the Douro is changing. It started cooling off last Saturday, when it rained for a hour. The few drops were definitively beneficial. This morning at 7am the temperature was 10ºC and today, at midday was 21ºC at the winery, well below the 29ºC of the last week. The colours are crazy ...

But the top table wines are trading for crazy amounts, being bought and sold by people who mostly have no intention of drinking them. Of course the port producers would like to follow suit - anyone in a manufacturing business would like to be able to sell their product for more. :D The percentage o...

finding someone around the world that loves some of the Ports you make.

Tom,

Some money goes to charity but it is up to the producer to decide if wants to give it or to receive it. But as you never know what was the producer's decision, it can't really justify the high prices. You can be bidding high for a bottle which money is going to the producer's pockets.

The same premium prices were seen a couple of weeks ago in the Douro in a Port Wine auction in my town. But here it's the same every year, people pay more than almost any bottle is worth.

This harvest has been really interesting. During the last two weeks, the grapes that are still on the vines have been ripening very very slow. We had planed to start harvesting in Quinta Vale d'Agodinho, Ferradosa, today but after the last test made yesterday, we postponed it for the next Monday. On...

I would say Noval Nacional 1967.

Are these port grapes you are harvesting now? - are you foot treading them? Tom We have only started with grapes for Port. The grapes for Douro wines will be harvest in around 10 days. Regarding the question about foot treading, nowadays we don't use it. We think we can make good Ports without turn...

Hi Tom, the front line is late but back! The weather is now colling off. The nights are quite cold, with temperatures of 15º-16º C and the highest during the day are now at the early 30s. This morning it rained, but only for few minutes. We have started harvesting yesterday in Douro Superior and i...

G-man, thank you for suggesting Quevedo! Nick, we are a small family winery located in the center of the Douro valley, in S. João da Pesqueira. We would love to have you and your father here for his memorable 80th anniversary. Please let me know in case you want to come over. We don't have cellars ...

I'll try it when I find my next corked bottle. I'm curious to know the result....

Oscar: a question perhaps for a different thread. Would you quote en primeur prices for your vintage port? If you don’t declare (or the IVDP prevents same), then the deal is cancelled. If you do declare, we’ve bought in advance. Direct to the consumer. This can be a very interesting proposal Julian...

Hi Ben, We don't have any other holiday in May besides the Labour Day, on the 1st. Regarding the time of your visit, May is a great month to come over, the weather is not too hot, the vines are green and beautiful and not too many people around, so you can receive a better treatment. If you are plan...

We have had our doses of rain, as it stormed last Saturday all across the Douro. The temperatures cooled off for around 20ºC but since Sunday we are back to the high 30sº. Alcohol content will be higher this harvest as the sugar is already high and we need some more weeks to finish the phenolic ri...

Maybe it's influence of the tropical depression: the temperatures keep going up and there are some storms affecting specially the Douro Superior. Today the temperatures reached 46ºC (115º F) and a storm is coming up from the the southwest. No rain yet. I was told that yesterday rained heavily in t...

I was not very clear, sorry for that :| . What I meant to say is that harvest will start 5 to 7 days early, comparing with 2007. So we would start in Douro Superior - Quinta das Olgas - around the 31st of August and in Ferradosa - Quinta Vale d'Agodinho - around September 14th. In any case these dat...

Tom, We don't know yet when we will start harvesting. If we look back, in 2007 we started harvesting in the Douro Superior - Quinta das Olgas - at the 3rd of September and in Quinta Vale d'Agodinho on September 19th. But in 2007 the grapes were not so ripened as they are now: August 10th in Quinta V...

The weather is now dryer in the Douro and temperature are going up, over 44º degrees in Ferradosa, very close to Vargellas. While at the end of July there was some morning humidity and fog, these days we have no fog or even clods. In Quinta Vale d'Agodinho (very close to Ferradosa), at 2pm the temp...