While Quinta do Tedo is first and foremost a winery, owner Vincent Bouchard always said “it’s easy to make wine, the challenge is selling it”…
Well, good wine is not so “easy” to make, and great wine takes many more hours of skillful vineyard and cellar work to nurture, which our small, savvy Adega Team is dedicated to at Quinta do Tedo.
At Quinta do Tedo we do not just nurture great Portos, Douro DOC wines and Extra Virgin Olive Oil, but a unique story, terroir, heritage and savoir-faire and our Bouchard Family values. This differentiates our premium quality and authentic products those reputation-tarnishing, mass-produced Portos you find for 5-10€ on the supermarket shelf, or those that grandma serves once a year, quasi-warm, from the cupboard in decorative aroma-crippling glasses.
We invest in qualified, local staff to host professional and personable technical tours at Quinta do Tedo, enlightening wine-curious visitors and aficionados about Douro Valley region and history, the traditional transformation of our estate’s grade-A grapes into a range of fine Portos and Douro DOC wines, when and how to enjoy them, and with what gourmandises.
For the sake of dividing and conquering duties, when not on-site at Quinta do Tedo, our Bouchard Family Brand Ambassadors embark on busy Port education and tasting itineraries to complement our on-site Team Tedo’s efforts, internationally. Let’s recap some recent Tedo appearances…
September 30, 2023 - Port Wine Day in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
October 13, 2023 - Quinta do Tedo was the 7th top-selling producer at our Dutch importer Okhuysen’s Open Doors Tasting in Haarlem, Netherlands.
October 14-20, 2023 - Spirits Festival and La Part Des Anges in Nantes, followed by visits to 28 wine shops, bars and restaurants between Roche Sur Yon, Angers, Tours, Rouen and Paris with our French importer, Jean Boyer.
November 16 & 20, 2023 - sharing a stand with Odile Bouchard’s Gamine Rose personal white wine label at La Rèleve tasting of next generation Burgundian wine projects in Beaune, France followed by the infamous La Paulée harvest luncheon at Château de Meursault.
November 24, 2023 - launching our Tawny 30 Year at Germany’s premiere Port tasting, Portweinmessen, full of Tedo Fans and next generation of Port Lovers.
We hope to see you at one of the above tastings next year! In the meantime, mark your calendars for the following near-future tastings at which we’ll showcase some new products (see below):
December 15 & 16, 2023 - annual Quinta do Tedo tasting “entre amis” in Merceuil, France.
February 12-14, 2024 - Vinexpo in Paris, France.
March 10-12, 2024 - ProWein in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Grande Reserva Savedra 2020 (shop online)
We produce Grande Reserva Savedra only in high-quality years - 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and, our most recent release, 2020 - when our old vine Savedra parcel, a 75-year-old field blend of 18+ varieties, shines especially bright. Recent warmer and sunnier growing seasons charge our grape skins’ with more color, tannins, and aromas, which we finely extract via delicate macerations that preserve this iconic vineyard’s unique mineral, cherry and forrest berry, wild herbs and floral expression without losing freshness. 2 years of aging in mostly new 228L French oak barrels of various forest origins and toast profiles softens age-worthy grip and imbues noble chocolate and tobacco aged aromas in our Grande Reserva Savedra, focusing its tension and persistence. Pair with wild mushrooms, slow cooked beef or boar stew or blue cheese and confited-tomato tart, or cellar and enjoy its evolution over 5-20 years.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (shop online)
Considering our extremely limited albeit high quality 2022 olive harvest, which we quickly sold out of in September 2023, were happily blessed with abundance this year - our 4 hectares of 50- to 150-year-old olive trees literally overflowed with healthy fruit, which we started harvesting in October, preserving freshness without adding aggressive spice or bitterness to our in our rich and greatly gastronomic cold-pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The first batch is decanted, bottled and back in stock in our Tasting Room and Online Shop for your enjoyment.
Tawny 30 Years (shop online)
Our “newest” old Tawny is an exquisite elixir celebrating 30+ years of Bouchard Family ownership at Quinta do Tedo, since 1992. Its limited-edition packaging includes a velvet Quinta do Tedo embroidered bag, with our signature wooden bar top cork, soft wax seal with opening instructions, and hand-written bottle number. Read more about this new product in last month’s blog.
~ Kay & Odile Bouchard