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Fine Wine Import/Wholesale. Importing from France, Portugal, Japan and USA. Purveyor to restaurants, fine wine retailers, hotels & bars.

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Trade Tasting @ Nomad Sydney
Tuesday 20th October
11.00am - 4.00pm
RSVP - LINK IN BIO
Spain - Italy - Chile - Argentina and Portugal. taken in Nomad by @qedwines

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6 hours ago

Grace Gris de Koshu 2025
93 points — Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

Lime, green melon, pear skin, a rice-like nuttiness and a volcanic edge. A touch more grip and grain this year, in a wine built on delicacy.

Eight vintages of Gris de Koshu reviewed, 2018 to 2025. Never below 92.

Katsunuma, Yamanashi. Fifth-generation winemaker Ayana Misawa.

#GraceWine #Koshu #GrisDeKoshu #Yamanashi #JapaneseWine #TheWineFront #QEDWines taken in 中央葡萄酒 GRACE WINE by @qedwines

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a month ago

It's almost time for our next Garden Party.
Spanish & Portuguese Garden Party
Sunday 13th September
12-3pm
We'll have over 24 wines available for tasting, a delicious Paella, and our kitchen will be serving up pintxo & tapas.
#ArchiveWineBar #GardenParty by @qedwines

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2 months ago

Dão DOC · Alva Sub-Region, Portugal

The Dão is one of Portugal's oldest and most respected wine regions, a granite plateau ringed by mountains in the country's interior. Alva is one of its seven official sub-regions — a cooler, higher-altitude pocket following the Alva River past Oliveira do Hospital and Tábua, shielded from harsh Atlantic winds by the surrounding peaks. Warm summers, cold wet winters, and distinct microclimates near the river give Alva's wines a softer, more fragrant character than the broader Dão style.

Soils: Predominantly weathered granite — poor, free-draining, low in fertility. Vine vigour is naturally restricted, concentrating flavour in small yields.

Vine age: Old, scattered field-blend parcels, mostly planted between the 1940s and 1980s, with some sites pre-dating 1940. Farmed by hand across steep, fragmented mini-plots, using traditional hoes and the lunar calendar for timing.

Varieties: Field blends of indigenous grapes rather than single-varietal plantings. Whites include Fernão Pires, Bical, Malvasia Fina, Encruzado and Arinto. Reds include Baga, Tinta Pinheira, Trincadeira, Alfrocheiro, Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Tinta Roriz and Castelão — each plot tended and harvested separately to preserve the identity of its own patch of granite.

Winemaking: Wild-yeast fermentation, no temperature control, minimal intervention. Reds are typically destemmed, macerated 9–10 days, and fermented in open lagar before slow pressing. Ageing runs through a mix of seasoned oak — barrels and tonneaux of varying sizes — and stainless steel, with natural stabilisation and no fining or filtration.

#DãoWine #VinhoDoDão #AlvaSubRegion #GraniteSoil #OldVines #FieldBlend #IndigenousVarieties #PortugueseWine #NaturalWine #WildFerment #LowIntervention #Baga #TourigaNacional #FernãoPires #Encruzado #DãoDOC #PortugalWine #TerroirDriven #HandHarvested #WineImporter #QEDWines taken in Serra do Açor by @qedwines

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2 months ago

Nossa Calcário Bical — Filipa Pato & William Wouters

From the chalky limestone soils of Óis do Bairro, the very heart of Bairrada, comes one of Portugal's most quietly celebrated white wines. 100% Bical, farmed biodynamically under Demeter certification, fermented in old oak and bottled by the lunar calendar.

Three vintages, one conviction: this is a wine about salt, stone and texture, not fruit. The critics agree —

94 The Winefront (2024) · 97 Decanter (2022) · 95 Wine Advocate (2023) · 95 Tim Atkin MW (2023)

Atlantic-fresh, mineral and built to age. Bical at its finest.

#FilipaPato #WilliamWouters #Bical #Bairrada #PortugueseWine #VinhoPortugues #BiodynamicWine #DemeterCertified #NaturalWine #WineLovers #WineImporter #QEDWines #ArtisanWine #SommelierLife #WineTrade #DrinkPortugal #WhiteWine #MineralWine #TerroirDriven taken in Óis Do Bairro, Aveiro, Portugal by @qedwines

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3 months ago

Filipa Pato & William Wouters · Bairrada D.O.C. PT.
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JamesSuckling.com.
94 Pts Dinâmica Branco Bical/Arinto 24
"Popcorn, austere minerals, stones and a touch of stone fruit on the nose. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, textured yet subtle, round and vibrant, with stone fruit carrying through in the finish. Expressive and energetic. A blend of bical and arinto, aged in tanks and barrels."
— Jacobo García Andrade, Senior Editor, JamesSuckling.com

Under Conversion Biodynamics, DNMC

#FilipaPato #WilliamWouters #Bairrada #Bical #Arinto #BiodynamicWine #FineWine #PortugueseWine #VinhoPortugues #JamesSuckling #QEDWines taken in Filipa pato & William Wouters by @qedwines

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3 months ago

Pato & Wouters Vinhos @ Hunters Hill Wine Room this Saturday 18th July.
Demeter-certified biodynamic farming, indigenous varieties and world-class winemaking from the duo redefining Bairrada.
On Taste:
Método Clássico 3B Sparkling Blanc de Blancs
Dinamica (D.N.M.C) Bical & Arinto 2024
Dinamica (D.N.M.C.) Baga Tinto 2024
Post Quercus 'Amphora' Baga Tinto 2023
Nossa Calcário Baga Tinto 2023 — The JS Top 100, No.1 Portuguese Wine of the Year 2025

Saturday 18 July · 2.00–5.00pm
5/35 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill

@filipa_pato_and_william_wouters @huntershillwineroom
#filipapato #bairrada #bical #arinto #baga #portuguesewine #biodynamicwine #demeter #vinhoportugues #sydneywine #huntershill #winetasting by @qedwines

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3 months ago

AUTOCHTHONOUS
— A Wine Trade Tasting
Three importers. Three countries. One room full of indigenous varieties.
Join The Spanish Acquisition, Quality Estate Distributors and La Carta for a walk through the native grapes of Spain, Portugal and Italy — poured side by side at Florentino's Wynn Room.
📅 Monday 14 September 2026
🕛 12pm–4pm
📍 Florentino 'The Wynn Room', 80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Trade only. RSVP: sales@qedwines.com.au
#Autochthonous #WineTrade #MelbourneWine #SpanishWine #PortugueseWine #ItalianWine #IndigenousVarieties #NativeGrapes #WineTasting #Florentino #TradeTasting #Sommelier #MelbourneSomms #WineImporter taken in Florentino Melbourne by @qedwines

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3 months ago

Elegance from the limestone of Bairrada.
Filipa Pato & William Wouters — wife and husband, winegrower and sommelier — farm their scattered old plots biodynamically, crafting fine wines of quiet precision under one philosophy: authentic wines, without makeup.
Their D.N.M.C. Branco 2024, Bical with a fine thread of Arinto, has just been awarded 94 points by Gary Walsh, The Wine Front — "definitely complex and interesting. Long. Great stuff."
11.5% alc · Drink 2026–2030+
Trade enquiries: sales@qedwines.com.au
#FilipaPato #WilliamWouters #Bairrada #FineWine #BiodynamicWine #PortugueseWine #Bical #Arinto #VinhoPortugues #TheWineFront #QEDWines taken in Óis Do Bairro, Aveiro, Portugal by @qedwines

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3 months ago

Three wines.
One forgotten corner of Portugal. Endless indigenous varieties.

Arribas Wine Company was founded in 2017 by Frederico Machado and Ricardo Alves in Bemposta, a remote village in the far northeast of Portugal, perched above the Douro river gorge at 600–700 metres. The vines here are 70 to 100 years old, field-blended with dozens of indigenous varieties that the rest of the wine world has largely never heard of. Tinta Gorda. Bastardo. Verdelho Vermelho. Posto Branco. The winemaking is as traditional as it gets, foot-trodden in lagares, wild fermented, aged in old oak, unfined and unfiltered.

The Saroto Branco 2024 is an orange wine of real texture and intensity, white varieties pressed after foot-treading and maceration, then seven months in barrel on lees. Complex, aromatic, and alive with natural acidity.

The Saroto Palhete 2024 is something genuinely rare, a co-fermentation of red and white grapes, a style that is entirely and uniquely Portuguese. Fresh, vibrant, with a long savoury finish. There is nothing quite like it.

The Saroto Tinto 2023 is a field blend of roughly 70% red and 30% white varieties, the white grapes co-fermented with the red adding lift and freshness to what is already a light, mineral, savoury red. Strawberry, thyme, a touch of iodine. Delicious and completely its own thing.

This is a region with history, forgotten, but Frederico and Ricardo are bringing it back one old vine at a time.

#ArribasWineCompany #Saroto #TrásOsMontes #PlanaltoMirandês #ArribasDoDouro #Portugal #vinhasvelhas elhas #PortugueseWine #NaturalWine #OldVines #FieldBlend #Palhete #OrangeWine #ArtisanWines #QEDWines #NaturalWine #IndigenousVarieties #MinimalIntervention by @qedwines

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5 months ago

Filipa Pato & William Wouters. Bairrada, Portugal. Native grapes, chalky clay, Atlantic winds. Traditional method sparkling — unfined, unfiltered, zero dosage. Authentic wines without makeup.

Two sparkling wines from one of Portugal's most uncompromising producers. Filipa Pato and William Wouters work Bairrada's Jurassic chalk with native grapes, wild yeast, and zero intervention. The 3B Blanc de Blancs and Rosé are traditional method, bottle-fermented, unfined and unfiltered — finished with no dosage. Crisp, mineral, alive.

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#FilipaPato #WilliamWouters #3BSparkling #Bairrada #Portugal #PortugueseWine #BlancDeBlancs #RoséSparkling #MétodeTraditionelle #NaturalWine #BiodynamicWine #ZeroDosage #Unfiltered #Unfined #Bical #Baga #ArtisanWine #artisanwines #QEDArtisanWines #VinhosAutênticos taken in Filipa pato & William Wouters by @qedwines

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5 months ago

Tomorrow. Five wines.
Scores up to 97 points.
The Douro Branco Xisto Cru 2023 was named #4 wine in Portugal 2025 by James Suckling. The Alvarinho Granito Cru scored 96 points and landed #5 in his Top 100 Portugal 2024. We're pouring both — plus three more — at Wine Culture this Saturday afternoon.
No ticket. No cost. Just some of the best Portuguese wine you'll taste in Sydney this year.

🍷 Alvarinho Granito Cru 2022 — 96 JS · #5 Top 100 Portugal 2024
🍷 Douro Branco Xisto Cru 2023 — 97 JS · #4 Top 100 Portugal 2025
🍷 Douro Branco Xisto Ilimitado 2024 — 94 JS · 93 GW
🍷 Douro Xisto Cru Tinto 2022 — 95 JS
🍷 Indie Xisto Tinto 2019 — 93 HH · 93 MB

📅 Saturday 23 May · 2pm–5pm
📍 Wine Culture, Sydney
Complimentary tasting — all welcome

#LuisSeabra #XistoCru #GranitoCru #DouroWine #Top100Portugal #JamesSuckling #SydneyWine #SydneyWineTasting #WineCulture #PortugalWine #VinhoVerde #OldVines #Alvarinho #Douro #WineLovers #PortugueseWine by @qedwines

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5 months ago