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).

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.

Uma parte da história, por António Lopes Ribeiro

Nasci em Dezembro de 1970, numa casa de granito construída pelo meu pai, António Ribeiro, num terreno herdado pela minha mãe, Maria Fernanda, outrora pertença do meu avô que por sua vez o tinha recebido do meu bisavô. A pedra utilizada na sua construção foi, ela própria, arrancada nesse terreno. Segundo conta o meu pai, hoje com mais de 80 anos, a casa e os armazéns demoraram dois anos a construir. De uma terra inóspita e praticamente inculta nasceu uma bela construção e vários terraços perfeitamente aráveis, onde viria a nascer a vinha do Outeiro. Conta também que, nesse ano, em virtude da grande preocupação com a obra, perdeu praticamente toda a colheita de vinho...

Mesmo assim ainda teve tempo para plantar uma nova vinha. Nasci sobre uma adega, com cubas de betão, lagar e tonéis. Em Dezembro os vinhos ainda se ajeitavam no interior do vasilhame e os seus aromas atravessavam o tabuado que separava a adega do meu quarto. Sou o quarto filho, irmão de Adriano, Hélder e Jorge.