g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.
Please post the text of the announcement here, if Oscar is happy for you to do so.
sorry text of announcement came with a private transaction i can't post =(
Or you could ask Oscar permission?
Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
Disclosure: Distributor of Quevedo wines and Quinta do Gomariz
g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
There is no need to mention your private transaction. But now that you have done so it is difficult to keep it secret.
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
There is no need to mention your private transaction. But now that you have done so it is difficult to keep it secret.
or i can keep you guys in suspense!
Disclosure: Distributor of Quevedo wines and Quinta do Gomariz
I've tried uploading the Sogrape announcement. But I can't upload a PDF file, I've tried it as a TIFF (and compressed TIFF) and a PNG file but it's still too big. If someone can explain to me how to reduce post it I will (and instructions need to be for an iMac).
My guess: a new "super-cuvee" from the vines around the terraces referred to in this description of Quinta dos Malvedos on TheVintagePortSite?
[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.
Edit: also a reference here to the "Port Arthur" vineyard producing some of the best TN at the Quinta, although it seems like a single varietal block so not sure my guess is correct...BUT reference here to the separate vinification of 2010 "Port Arthur" grapes with "parcel 37", so perhaps 2011 was the next iteration of this experiment?
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RAYC wrote:
Edit: also a reference here to the "Port Arthur" vineyard producing some of the best TN at the Quinta, although it seems like a single varietal block so not sure my guess is correct...BUT reference here to the separate vinification of 2010 "Port Arthur" grapes with "parcel 37", so perhaps 2011 was the next iteration of this experiment?
A further tid-bit from the Fells site on the 2011 harvest...
Charles is particularly pleased with the quality and flavour of the Touriga Nacional from Port Arthur, and from the north facing parcel 37 just behind the house; it looks as if those will be vinified together again this year.
[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.
Churchill wrote:2011 has the makings of a phenomenal Port Vintage. In all my 39 vintages I have never encountered young Ports with such colour, structure and intensity. These Ports are head and shoulders above anything I have ever seen at this stage.
Fact or salesmanship?
The website’s list of Churchill vintages ends at 2007 (1991, ’94, ’97, 2000, ’03, ’07). Sigh. So many websites are done in a fit of high-budget enthusiasm, then allowed to go stale.