GREAT NEW WEBSITE FOR QUINTA DO NOVAL
Memories of a fantastic visit at QUINTA DO NOVAL, years ago…
I still feel the warmth, the cooling wind and shadow on the fabulous terrace with a marvellous view… I can smell the freshly harvested grapes crushed by feet in the granite ‘lagares’, day and night… I can hear the songs and the music of [...]
SURPRISING WINE ‘CONCEPT’ FROM PORTUGAL
During PROWEIN 2011, one company stole my heart… It was the kind of discovery that first surprises you by the design of the labels, making you reduce your vocabulary into a big mouth full of ‘O’… Like a bunch of smileys, the amazed ‘O ?!’, the sceptical ‘O??’, than the amused ‘O !?’ and the [...]
COCKBURN’S PORT FULLY PART SYMINGTON’S FAMILY ESTATES
Just received from the Symington’s Family Estates:
The agreement announced on the 7th October of the intended purchase of Cockburn’s Port by the Symington family from Beam Global was completed on the 15th December in Portugal. Cockburn’s was founded in 1815 by Robert Cockburn, a Peninsular War soldier and it became one of Port’s greatest names [...]
2010 HARVEST REPORT SYMINGTON
After three very dry years, the winter of 2010 saw an extraordinary change and the Douro had an absolute deluge. There were days in the vineyards when all that could be heard from every quarter was the sound of running water. Being an area of mountain vineyards, this brought all Douro farmers considerable problems of [...]
PORT HOUSE OF DOW’S BUYS PRECIOUS 1896 DOWS PORT
Euan Mackay, sales director of Dow’s Port wrote us about the recent purchase of one of the very last bottles of DOW’S 1896 VINTAGE PORT by the House of Dow’s (owned by the Symington family) during a major fine wine auction in Hong Kong, held by Acker Merral & Conduit.
The Dow’s 1896 has a special [...]
