I found this interesting view of Portugal on “Grapes and Grains” blog: “From the moment my foot hit the tarmac upon debarking from the plane, I knew I was in a different world.  The warm Portuguese sun hit me square in the face and I had one of those...

Following last year’s “Distilling – Alambique” post, this year I made a video of the distilling process. The distiller is composed of 1 boiler, 2 columns and 2 condensers. The distiller uses 2 columns simultaneously or on a flip-flop system – while...

The crusher-destemmer is the first machine to be found in the winery and it’s located outside of  it so the grapes can be easily unloaded. In small wineries like mine, the crusher-destemmer is a small machine placed near or over the “lagar“. This...

This year I harvested last 27th September. 2009 was a great year without any diseases affecting  the  good  ripening of the grapes. I harvested 380 kg of Touriga Nacional and 380 kg of Tinta Roriz (“Tempranillo”). I had a 7% global production...

Lagar has been on pause… Things didn’t go as planned. MLF started but never ended so the wine has 2.0 mg/l of malic acid… This blog is about a wine from vine to bottle so while I was wondering what to do with it, I didn’t feel motivated to post,...