Tasting of Dão wines with Sarah Ahmed (The Wine Detective).

Several wine producers from the Dão have participated in the tasting organized by Viniportugal with the wine journalist Sarah Ahmed, from The Wine Detective (who is in charge of selecting this year the “50 great Portuguese wines in England”), David Williams (responsible for a weekly upright section about Portuguese wines in the magazine Off Licence News) and Neil Phillips.We presented the new white vintages of CASA de MOURAZ, the blend and the Encruzado 2008 and the reds CASA de MOURAZ 2007 and CASA de MOURAZ Private Selection 2006 (both awarded with Silver Medals in Decanter World Wine Awards 2009). The place was the Solar do Vinho do Dão, in Viseu.

Nice working Sunday

António, Teresa de Rosário and Peter.

Sometimes the best day to receive visits in CASA de MOURAZ is Sunday. And yesterday it was a very nice and hot Sunday (more than 35ºC). We received the visit from Rosário & Prange, from Köln (Germany), a company created by a portuguese woman specialized on portuguese wines (http://www.rosario-prange.de/). We lunched in Três Pipos restaurant in Tonda, some representative dishes from our region of Beiras - the famous "bacalhau" and "polvo (octopus) frito com migas", both perfect with the whites from CASA de MOURAZ. We tasted all our wines, it was a big lunch!! After we went to Mouraz, to visit our winery. It was very hot to do a walk in the vineyards. It's for the next visit...

"Prova Oral" in the Oceanário of Lisbon with Fernando Alvim

The wines from CASA de MOURAZ served in the party and view from the balcony of Oceanário (Lisbon).

Last week (the 9th July) we participated in the radio show "Prova Oral" with Fernando Alvim (Antena 3), Alexander Ellis (ambassador from England in Portugal), Livia Tirone (architect specialized in sustainable building) and the owner of the Oceanário of Lisbon, João Falcato. The "green" subject, organized by the magazine Time Out Lisboa, was the environment and the sustainable development. It was the oportunity of talking about topics like ways of saving energy at home, in the streets, in the work, ecological practices, production and consumption of organic products and organic wines. And it was also the oportunity to discover that there are a deficient information about organic wines and a lot of misunderstandings. But at the end, the important was that all the people liked a lot the organic wines from CASA de MOURAZ.

Album from Vinexpo Tour

Back to Portugal

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.