Category Archives: News from the Douro

Tracking the Season – 19 April

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

At Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos and Quinta do Tua the viticultural season is well underway and we are busy in the vineyards with a wide range of tasks, whilst the vines are growing well. From the week before Easter through … Continue reading →

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Tracking the Season – 21 March

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

We visited Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos again just as winter officially turned to spring with the passing of the equinox.  It was a brilliantly sunny day, and a good one for getting lots of work done in the vineyards.  Things … Continue reading →

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Tracking the Season – 9 February

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

The weather for our most recent visit to Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos and Quinta do Tua could not have been more different from January’s visit:  instead of overcast and low fog, we had some brilliant warm sunshine and mostly clear … Continue reading →

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Tracking the Season – 10 & 11 January

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Last week we we made our first visit of the new year to Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos and Quinta do Tua to check on the viticultural progress in our Douro quintas.   In addition, we were able to visit Quinta do … Continue reading →

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Tracking the Season – 29 November

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

A month has passed since our last visit to Quinta dos Malvedos and Tua, and whilst the grass is much greener and a few vines still have brightly coloured leaves clinging, the vineyards generally appear more barren as the leaves … Continue reading →

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Tracking The Season – 26 October

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

It is just three weeks since we finished the harvest at Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos.  The leaves are turning colour and the Douro is every bit as spectacular as the fabled New England autumn landscapes.  The foliage on the Touriga … Continue reading →

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The 2012 Douro Harvest

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

Paul Symington reviews the 2012 Harvest in the Douro: The Douro vines and its vineyards have an extraordinary way of surprising even the old-timers in the mountain villages of Sabrosa, Alijo and Provesende.  In 2011, the region had a huge … Continue reading →

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End of Harvest 2012 at Quinta dos Malvedos

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

We received 97 deliveries of grapes, vinified them into 19 lagares of wine, bagged and then lifted onto the truck and unbagged 18,000 kilos of the remaining pips and skins from the wine press afterwards, and after all that hard … Continue reading →

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The Next Generation: Anthony Symington

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

What do you do during that interval between finishing university and landing a job?  If you are a Symington, and it’s September, you could go to work in a Douro winery. Dominic’s son, Anthony, had already worked the 2007 harvest … Continue reading →

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Malvedos Winemaker’s Update: Saturday, 6 October

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

We all got into the winery a bit later today as we were not receiving any more grapes – and when I arrived at 08:15 it was a pleasantly cool morning, which turned into another warm autumn day. Though we … Continue reading →

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