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Hi Jo,

Thanks very much. I know Enoforum very well, they sell surplus production of the Alentejo Cooperatives.
It’s a petty but I will not be at Lisbon for the blogers conference. There will be a very interesting dinner on Saturday at Augusto’s Gimmelli place and I don’t know yet if I have time to send my wines there.
Enjoy your trip, and take good memories home.
Best

Hi Jo,

Are you coming for a wine trip or just for tourism?
If you come to Dão region, just visit us.
We are able to receive you and to show you the region. Our relations are very friendly with everybody.
There are many traditional producers around, all of them working with different grape varieties and with very different style, many of them with really Story.
Our Quinta da Boavista dates back from the beginning of the 18 century, and was at the time, as it still is today, a rural property with the main house, the cellars and all the rural workers accommodations inside.
By the end of the 19 century under my great grand father, the house underwent huge renovation that gave her today’s shape and size in the traditional style of the region rural houses – a big patio with a huge bread oven inside, around it the main house and the workers accommodations, the cellars and the warehouses, built in granite. By the end of the 20 century, my father took on his hands the project of adapting the house (witch was more or less in ruins) into a tourist unity with all the comfort and amenities that a guest house nowadays must have.


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Hi Jo,

Portugal has many autochthones grape varieties, red and whites.
White varieties are very interesting, with very different characters, but SYRIA also called Códega do Larinho is fantastic, with citrons aromas of tangerine and orange.
Portugal Dão region has the most gastronomic wines: fresh, intense, elegant with very nice acidity, made with autochthonous grapes from very particularly varieties.
Just try.
I am a producer in Portuguese Dão region, and I suggest you to taste an old Dão.

Just see what Paul White Thinks about as:

“So far, Portugal has managed to remain true to its traditions, while at the same time offering up a huge range of distinctive grape varieties and unusual wine styles precisely when many of us are tiring of endless New World makeovers of French varietals.

Dao has a lot going for it in that respect: first rate grape varieties firmly rooted in granite-based ‘terroir’ that sparkles back like diamonds, all this shaped by a growing season that’s relatively gentler and longer than other Portuguese regions. Although relatively unknown and sometimes tricky to pronounce, Dao’s red wines offer consumers genuinely new and exciting tasting experiences.”

Visit please our web-site, for now it’s just in Portuguese, but to see photos you don’t need any translation: www.quintadaboavista.eu

Hope to hear from you soon.