A tour in Château Fonroque

Vinexpo is the pretext for a France Vineyards Tour. This year, as 2 years ago, we visited St. Emilion. Even if it's very crowded with people from over the world, it's a lovely village with beautifull wineries and vineyards.
And we had to thank Mr. Alain Moueix, from Château Fonroque, for the way he received us. We visited the vineyards, the winery, we saw the concrete's egg to do the maturation of the wines, we talked about organic and biodynamic farming and, at the end, we tasted some refined Grand Crus of Château Fonroque and Le Moulin du Cadet. It was a great morning!

La Renaissance des Appellations at Vinexpo

The 23th June it was the tasting of Renaissance des Appellations in Vinexpo. It was the oportunity to see some of our clients and meet some new potential ones and also to seesome wines producers and taste their wines. It was nice to discouver some wines from Austria and France done with grapes as Chenin Blanc, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris or Gruner Veltliner.

Arrive to our table at 8:30th and start to prepare all for the tasting.

Presenting our wines.

The Lac of Bordeaux near Vinexpo and the ramp to access the fair.

Visit of Raymond Reynolds

Last month it was full of good things.

The visit of Raymond Reynolds, our agent in England, with his colleague Danny Cameron and several clients of their. We did a nice tasting on the shadow of a fig tree, outside the winery, the weather was great, with a lot of sun!

Sara Dionísio, António Ribeiro (Casa de Mouraz) and Chris Cooper (sommelier of St Alban Restaurant in London).

Hot days in Montemor - Alentejo

Wonderfull day in Carumulo

Yesterday it was holiday,we did a walk with the children in the Caramulo mountain. It's one of the mountains that limited the Dão region, in the Atlantic side. When the sky it's clear, we can see the ocean in Caramulinho, the higgest place of the mountain, more than 1000 meters over the sea.

Hello from Mouraz

Hello, long time without publishing a post, a lot of work and things happened, no time to blogging...
We received 2 Silver Medal in Decanter World Wine Awards 2009, with the red wines CASA de MOURAZ Dão 2007 and the CASA de MOURAZ Private Selection Dão 2006. It was great news!!

He have been in Copenhagen, in a presentation of La Renaissance des Appellations, the 30th May. It was not very organized but it was a good time there, in the sunny Denmark. And it was the oportunity to be with Maria, Dinis and the little Mateus, good friends who live in Malmo, Sweden.

We had also the party of Goliardos, the 4th Aniversary, in the restaurant Jardim dos Sentidos. We have presented some of our wines, also with other producers such as Vinha Paz, Quinta da Pellada, Quinta do Dorado, Casal Figueira, Quinta das Baldias...

And what's happened in the vineyards? Let's go to see the pictures...

Serra is the name of our vineyard of Água-Santa, a red variety almost forgotten. I took these pictures some days after using the 500 preparation.