Silver Medal / Decanter World Wine Awards 2009

CASA de MOURAZ Private Selection, Dão DOC 2006: "Tight nose with underlying new oak, then a big, ripe, firm fruit palate, some chocolate notes and ripe tannins. Good length- needs time." in Decanter, October 2009.

Harvest in the Douro

At home now, after 3 days doing the harvest in the Douro. At the same time, António continues the harvest in the Dão. My son António came with me, 3 days climbing and climbing, and doing naps under the shadows of the olive trees and making picnics...

Start with the red wines in the Dão

Yesterday we've start to harvest the red grapes in the Dão. These pictures has been taken at the end of the day.

Harvest time III

The whites of CASA de MOURAZ started the fermentation now. Now it's time to taste the red grapes in the vineyards and analize it to decide when to start with the red wines. António does kilometers in the vineyards to pick up grapes and taste it. In the Douro it's harder, he needs to climb a lot!!

Harvest time II

More about the harvest. We finishid the whites in the Dão and we did the first "lagar" in the Douro Valley - 4000 kg of beautiful grapes, Touriga-Franca, Touriga-Nacional and others. The "corte do lagar" was done Sunday, we did some pictures. It's 3 hours treading under foot the grapes in the "lagar", the first 2 hours very military, the last one with free movements.

Harvest time

Yesterday we started the harvest in the Dão, in some white vineyards - with Bical, Malvasia-Fina and a little of Encruzado. The maturations are great and the grapes are very healthy (nothing of botritis, what is great, because sometime this could be a problem working in organic farming in our region). Because it was holiday in Tondela, I spent all day with the children and I had no oportunity to do some pictures. Only 2 photos of a Bical grape, that in our region it's called "borrado das moscas" (that means "spotty by the flies"!!)

Klaar voor de toekomst! by Coenecoop (Holland)

The 6 and 7 September we have been in Holland, to participate on the event "Ready for the future" organized by Coenecoop (Waddinxveen), one of our dutch clients.