For The Love Of Port

Hi Oscar, First off, thank you for being here! My question centers on closures. For someone who makes one of the most long lived forms of wine on earth, a good closure is obviously essential to the soundness of your wine 20, 30 or 40+ years down the road. How do you ensure that you have corks that ...

Btw, are you guys going biodynamic/organic? I recall you mentioned something about it when I visited, but I coulnd't find anything on the website. We are converting 5ha of Quinta da Trovisca Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional into organic production. This is the second year of a three-year period ...

Thank you Senhor Quevedo. I hope you succeed in finding potential importers in western Canada next June - and you will very likely be impressed by Penticton and the Okanagan valley. You may be in for a shock when you see the price of imported wines here by comparison to almost everywhere else. If I...

This might be of interest to some people and I thought it might be informative if you elaborated on it. But Quevedo actually owns / co owns 8 different vineyards. Quinta Vale d'Agodinho Quinta da Alegria Vale do Nedo Quinta das Olgas are all along various parts of the Douro With 4 others to the sou...

Hi Oscar, First off I wanted to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here with us for a week. :thanks: My question relates to "classic declared" years. In the past there has historically been 2-3 "classic declarations" per decade. However in recent times tha...

Hey Oscar! I believe you might be the first producer to extensively leverage social media, qr codes, etc. on you labels. I was wondering what your perception has been on how these efforts are paying off. I also wonder if you are seeing other producers following you lead? Cheers my friend! Stewart H...

Hi Oscar, Thanks for spending the time to answer our questions. I am interested in your thoughts about the 2010, 2011, and 2012 vintages for your Port and Douro wines. Also, do you know which vintage your next release of Colheita will be? Hi David, your question made me think a little bit and recal...

I would be very interested in finding out which importers (if any) are representing Senhor Quevedo's estate in British Columbia, Canada. At this time it does not appear to be listed in the BC Liquor Board's inventory. On the strength of the quevedoport.com site alone, this seems like an unfortunate...

I'll ask an easy one to start out - when is your next trip to Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver Canada? [cheers.gif] Glenn, as devoted to social media, I love to go to both wine bloggers conferences, the European and the American. The European took place last week in Izmir, Turkey. Next year the Amer...

PLEASE DO start asking your questions, as we only have Oscar for one week and therefore, the more questions we start off the week with the better we will be able to get things rolling here. That being said, please join me in welcoming Oscar Quevedo to our forum! :NotWorthy: Oscar, here is my first ...

I've just found out who the guest will be - excellent news! I'll spend some time thinking of questions to ask Oscar ... like what is the earliest date Quevedo could submit a sample of 2011 vintage wine to the IVDP for approval as a Vintage Port? Hi Alex, here the legislation is very clear, we can s...

It strikes me that subscribed members should be given an opportunity to guess who this mystery guest might be, with submissions cut off after midday November 17, for an opportunity to win a bottle of this guest's wine, if applicable. Hi Ray, and would you guess I would be the guest of the week? If ...

That's a good starting Brian!

Thank you Andy for sharing this here! Actually, it was weird when we finished the bottling and started laying down the bottles in containers. I was looking at my sister and saying, We better have this crust in 3 years, otherwise it's going to be a big disappointment for all of us. Then I realized th...

Hi Brian, I was carefully reading your reviews about the Ports you tasted during your visit to our lodge and it looks like there was something wrong with them. As you may have noticed, the area around our lodge has been under construction and our staff has probably been focusing more on the cleaning...

As Glenn says, it depends on the house style, also on the location of the vineyards. The eastern you go, the lower the rainfall level, meaning lower yields and more concentration. These Ports will have more structure and maintain the darker colors for longer. So you probably need more small barrel a...

I'm aware that wine doesn't weigh exactly the same as pure water, but I think it's close enough for our purpose here. :wink: [cheers.gif] Nearly all beer weighs in a little more than water, generally in the range 1.006 to 1.012 for most typical beers, 1.012 to 1.020 for some of the bigger ones. (Wa...

Jay, actually in average is a little bit more than 70 or 80 grams. Red Port varies from 100g to 125 grams per liter while white can start from 20 grams for Extra Dry and go up to 150 grams for the very sweet / lágrima style. Increase the number of jumping jacks and all will be fine!

I guess the 10 --- 40 year old Tawny exist as a category to include those Ports aged in cask for decades, topped up with younger Port every year, as it is very difficult, though possible, to age a single Port for 40 years in a barrel, not topping up with any other Port. I agree that it is nor very a...

I don't smoke and don't like to drink while people around are smoking. But lately more and more cigar smokers have come to us looking for the right Port for the cigar. Don't know if we have anyone in the forum that loves more the cigar rather than Port, but I'd really like to know why Port works wel...