Of many loyal and generous supporters of Rose Charities, two of the stars are Carrie and Hans Jorgensen who founded, own and run the well known Cortes de Cima Vinyard in Portugal. Rose Charities is truly lucky to have such wonderful friends and ones who produce such wonderful products ! On many occasions Cortes de Cima has greatly helped the success of fund-raises with wine donations, as they will do again in the forthcoming FOTORELIEF Haiti exhibition and photograph sale in New Yord (18th March 2010) in aid of Haiti. Rose Charities owes a big, and continuing thankyou to Carrie and Hans and Cortes de Cima. www.Cortesdecima.com We are incredibly grateful. And to everyone else, please remember if you buy and drink any of the wonderful Cortes-de-Cima wine.. you are helping Rose Charities too !
General information....
Cortes de Cima, 7690-999 Vidigueira, Portugal
Tel: +351 284 463119 Fax: +351 284 463292
E-mail: wine@cortesdecima.pt Website: www.cortesdecima.pt
The Alentejo has led the way in Portugal’s wine revolution. It’s a region that has enjoyed tremendous success over the last decade, producing red wines in two distinctive styles. On the one hand, there is the traditional Alentejo style, perhaps typified by José Maria da Fonseca’s José de Sousa, the Cartuxa wines from Evora, or JP Vinhos’ Tinto de Anfora. On the other hand, there is the modern, fruit-forward, almost new-world style that has been such a huge commercial success and which has propelled this region forward so fast. Cortes de Cima, owned by Hans and Carrie Jorgensen, falls firmly into the latter bracket, and has rapidly established itself as one of the leading wineries of this region.
The Alentejo is huge, with its flat plains covering almost a third of the country. Much of this area is given over to cereal production. It’s also hot, and irrigation is common. In contrast to the northern regions, with their fragmented smallholdings, production is dominated by larger, professional outfits. Cortes de Cima are following in the trail João Portugal Ramos and Esporão, who have mainly concentrated on local grape varieties but who have also been working with Syrah, the only foreign grape to so far to have made much of an inroad into the region. Cortes de Cima’s most celebrated wine, Incognito, is in fact a varietal Syrah.
The great success of the Alentejo has been in making thoroughly modern, concentrated wines that still retain a distinctly Portuguese character, and this is what Cortes de Cima have done very well. There is strong local demand for these wines, their high intrinsic quality, and the ambitions of the producer. As an aside, Cliff Richard fans might like to know that the first vintage of his wine, Vida Nova, was made here
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