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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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SYDNEY TRADE TASTING @nomad.sydney
Tuesday 20th October
11am to 4pm 👌🍷
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Italy 🇮🇹 Spain 🇪🇸 Portugal 🇵🇹 Chile 🇨🇱 & Argentina 🇦🇷 all in one room across 60 wines!
#buenosvinos
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@lacartawine
@thespanishacquisition
@qedwines

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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.

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Listen up Sydney wine trade 📣

Be at Autochthonous, an exploration of indigenous grape varieties and their biotypes from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile and Argentina.

Join four importers as they showcase wines with deep cultural heritage and a real sense of place. These are the bottles that bring restaurant lists to life.

Tuesday 20 October 11am – 4pm Nomad Sydney

RSVP via email or the link in our bio.

🇮🇹 Italy – @lacartawine 🇪🇸 Spain – @thespanishacquisition 🇵🇹 Portugal – @qedwines 🇨🇱🇦🇷 Chile & Argentina – @sensesatwine

Trade and industry professionals only.

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Today we raise a glass to the 2026 harvest — unforgettable, emotional, and deeply rewarding. 🍇🍷❤️

After two challenging years, the care and dedication we’ve poured into our biodynamic, Demeter-certified vineyards have paid off: we harvested beautiful Bical and Baga grapes, brimming with promise.

We started by headlamp before sunrise, and today the final basket came in. We’re celebrating resilience, our wonderful team, our 20th harvest together, and Filipa’s 25 years as an independent winemaker.

Bairrada has surprised us once again. Let’s celebrate! 🤘❤️ ❤️❤️
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Hoje brindamos à vindima de 2026 — inesquecível, emotiva e muito gratificante. 🍇🍷❤️

Depois de dois anos difíceis, o cuidado e a dedicação às nossas vinhas biodinâmicas, certificadas Demeter, deram frutos: vindimámos uvas Bical e Baga lindíssimas, cheias de promessa.

Começámos de lanterna frontal, antes do nascer do sol, e hoje entrou o último cesto. Celebramos a resiliência, a nossa equipa maravilhosa, a 20.ª vindima juntos e os 25 anos da Filipa como viticultora independente.

A Bairrada voltou a surpreender-nos. Vamos festejar! 🤘❤️❤️❤️
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#bairrada #baga #bagaterroirista #biodynamic #demeter

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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

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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

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🍷 TRADE TASTING 💫

Date: Monday, 14 September 2026  Time: 12pm – 4pm  Place: @FlorentinoMelbourne

Wine trade, join us for Autochthonous — an exploration of indigenous grape varieties from Italy, Spain and Portugal. We will present bottles with deep cultural heritage and a sense of place — wines that bring restaurant lists to life.

@LaCartaWine will handle Italy, @TheSpanishAcquisition Spain and with @QEDWines covering Portugal.

We look forward to seeing you there!

#WineTasting #MelbourneRestaurants #MelbourneWine #melbournewinebar #Sommeliers

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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

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Harvest 2026 — Two Weeks In

Two weeks into the Baga harvest, and this one is special.

My 25th harvest as an independent winegrower and our 20th together ❤️❤️❤️

Twenty-five years working with Bairrada, never against it. Biodynamic, Demeter certified and focused on our native varieties, with Baga at the heart of everything.

This year, not one gram of copper was used in our vineyards. In our Atlantic climate, that means a lot.

Still observing. Still learning. Still trusting the vines.

More to come 💥💥💥
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Vindima 2026 — Duas semanas

Duas semanas de vindima da Baga, e esta é especial.

A minha 25.ª vindima como viticultora independente e a nossa 20.ª juntos ❤️❤️❤️

Vinte e cinco anos a trabalhar com a Bairrada, nunca contra ela. Biodinâmica, certificação Demeter e as nossas castas autóctones, sempre com a Baga no centro de tudo.

Este ano, não usámos um único grama de cobre nas vinhas. No nosso clima atlântico, isso significa muito.

Continuamos a observar, a aprender e a confiar nas vinhas.

Mais novidades em breve 💥💥💥
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#bairrada #baga #bagaterroirista #biodynamic #demeter

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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

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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

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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

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