These days Quevedo head up north in Brussels, Belgium, doing some wine tasting with our clients and with the clients of our clients. The tasting will end tomorrow, the November 11th. If you are close to Brussels and if you want to taste our Port Wine, our Douro Wine or even any other wine from the producers present at the tasting (see the list underneath), just email me and I can try to get an invitation for you.
As far as I hear from the client here in the tasting, French wines still having the majority share in the Belgium?s’ private cellars. Nevertheless, wines from Spain, like DO Cava, from South Africa and from Portugal are getting more and more demand from those who look for new experiences and new tasting.
We are offering for tasting two Douro wines (Vinho Cão 2002 and Quinta Vale D’Agodinho 2003) and five Port Wines (Porto Rita’s Tawny, Porto Quevedo White, 10 Years Old, LBV 2000 and Vintage 2005). While the Douro wine is almost always a surprise as people here did not ever had tasted a Portuguese not fortified wine, the Port Wine is easily a success. The Belgium love Port (Belgium is the fifth market in value and volume) and there are a lot of Port enthusiasts. They know the different categories of Port, some emblematic brands and they are aware of the good harvests. This makes me really happy. I feel that all the hard work we have during the year to get a good wine is then carefully evaluated and analyzed by people that love wine. And this passion for wine is the principle of a small and familiar winery such us Quevedo!
Óscar Quevedo
Wine producers also represented in the wine tasting:
France
Mr Vigier, Chateau Les Chaumes, Chateau Reve, Pomerol
Mr Jean Luc Alla, Chateau de St Pey Gran Cru St Emilion
Mr Yves Glottin, Chateau Goudichaud, Chateau La Fleur des Graves, Graves de Vayres
Mr Francois de Coninck, Chateau Junayme, Chateau Canon, Fronsac
Mr Henri Brut, Clocher Notre Dame de Marceille, Clocher de Rouffiac, Limoux
Mr Gilles Bousquet, Domaine St Antoine, Minervois
Mlle Pedrol, Chateau Les Pins Cotes de Roussillon, Rivesaltes, Cotes de Roussillon
Mr Jerome Jelonch, Le Faite de St Mont, Plaimont
Domaine Edmond Rentz, Alsace
Domaine du Vieux Chateau, Daniel-Etienne Defaix, Chablis
Other countries
Ms Yngvild Steytler, Kaapzicht, Steytler, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mr Erik Scheerlinck, Tsinandali, Saparavi Marani, Mukuzani from Georgia, Tamaioasa from Romania, Enira from Bulgaria
Mr Pedro Azcunaga, Azcunaga, Mont Michel, Navarra and Cava, Spain
