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Quinta da Panasqueira: our family brand

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Quinta da Panasqueira is a portuguese brand that intends to take overseas genuine and organic products from specific geographical regions in Portugal. We are a couple that loves good food accompanied with excellent wine. We enjoy the simple pleasures of life and one of these is travelling and taking the opportunity to make our local products known in local distances. We represent 2 powerfull wine regions, the Alentejo with an excellent quality / price ratio from the producers Absurdo and Doispontocinco from Beira Interior region with an excellent sample of reds, rosé and white wines all originals and well executed. We also represent local licquers made of endogenous fruits and herbs. As wine calls for cheese, we work with local producers offering a variety of cheeses: Cheese from Beira Baixa DOP –yellow, Cheese from Beira Baixa DOP – Castelo Branco, Cheese fromBeira Baixa DOP – spicy, Cheese from Beira Baixa DOP – yellow (small portion), Cheese from Beira Baixa DOP – Castelo Branco ...
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We also represent Salsicharia da Gardunha - daGardunha – which is a Portuguese company that creates, since 1992, uniquely flavoured charcuterie products based on local and family traditions and history, always committed to our values and consumers. It´s daGardunha's business, being a company with passion for creating charcuterie products, to bring identity, history, happiness and convenience day to day, based on sustainable responsibility, and at affordable prices to everyone. We present you a 5 range portfolio that meets each one of us: # Traditional - For the ones who love tradition # Ham - For the ones who have been always in love with the cured ham # Selection - For the ones who are passionate about delicatessen # Traditional & Health - For the ones who love an healthier traditional recipe # Sliced - For the lovers of convenience As we say in Portugal… “Some of the best moments in life, happen around a table...
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Ouro da Estrela is a superior category brand of olive oil, uniquely produced with mechanical processes. This golden olive oil, extra virgen olive oil, is obtained in cool from healthy olives, harvested in a matured ideal state. It's taste is delicate, soft and fruity which is an ideal combination with salads, bread, fish and meat. Ouro da Estrela has won the Golden Medal in 2017. We have several sizes: 0,25cl; 0,50cl; 0,75cl; 1lt; 3lt and 5lt. Besides the olive oil we also represent a segment of this product with an high percentage of olive oil, which is the oil extracted from the olive oil, a lighter kind of olive oil.

Traditional honey from the slopes of Gardunha

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Concept Our products are honey, in three varieties, rosemary, heather and multifloral, produced on the slopes of the Gardunha between Cova da Beira and the plain of Castelo Branco. Area of ​​abundant water, oaks, pines and Mediterranean flora, it makes the transition between the north of Portugal and the south allowing an apicultural exploitation in zones of ecological excellence. Rosemary Honey: Taken in the plain of Castelo Branco has the following characteristics: Color: Gold color Taste: Soft Aroma: Sweet scent The rosemary plants grow spontaneously by the plain of Castelo Branco, it is a honey with great notoriety in Portugal. Its golden color reminiscent of gold, has a mild taste and its aroma and quite sweet due to its high concentration of fructose, being recommended in sugar-free diets is a natural sweetener. Several studies have shown anticancer properties of this honey, in addition, it helps to prevent degenerative diseases. Heather Honey: Taken on the slopes o...

Cheese from Beira Baixa Region

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Our local producer is Queijaria Almeida whose mission is to manufacture cheese cured from raw sheep's milk and goat's milk and pasteurized sheep's cheese curd. It is assumed as a reference company in the national, Community and extra-community market. PRODUCTS: Castelo Branco Sheep Cheese Cured: This is a normal curing product or prolonged cure. When it is not of prolonged cure it has a typical aroma of sheep and slightly acidified flavor. It has a thin crust of yellow color and inside it a soft paste of the buttery type. When Prolonged Cure has a moderately stronger taste, hard crust of yellow color and inside, hard paste;  Spicy Cheese from Beira Baixa: Cheese made from sheep's milk and goat's milk, prolonged curing, about 120 days, matured in rye straw. Taste strong, slightly spicy, conferred by prolonged maturation. Greyish white crust. 

Powerful wine flavours from Alentejo and Beira Interior

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We represent a powerfull wine region, the Alentejo with an excellent quality / price ratio from the producer Absurdo. Absurdo present us the collection: Red Alentejo Horizonte Absurdo 2013, White Alentejano Absurdo 2015 and Red Alentejo Terracota Absurdo 2015. Red Alentejo Horizonte Absurdo 2013: Concept With this wine we wanted to give to prove a product of the Alentejo with an excellent quality / price ratio. We resort to castes such as Touriga Nacional, Aragonez and Alicante Bouschett and received a fresh, fruity wine with notes which, with great success, went against our objective. Type: Red Year: 2013 Vinification and stage: Fermentation with temperature control. Internship in Cuba of Inox for 12 months. Technical information: Alcohol: 13.5% vol. A.C. Total: 6.4 g / dm3 PH: 3.4 Tasting notes Color: Granada Aroma: Aroma with notes of orange, light fruity and a touch of spice Palate: Wine with well-defined tannins and a pleasant freshness White Alentejano Absurdo ...

Fruity jams made with old recipes

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The taste of food products manufactured according to the traditional methods and recipes of Mountains of Gardunha in Portugal. We present you classical jam tastes, JAMS 270GR (PUMPKIN WITH NUTS PUMPKIN PUMPKIN WITH ALMOND PLUM BLACKBERRY CHERRY PUMPKIN SQUASH JAM FIG RASPBERRY QUINCE JELLY JELLY OF ROSES SOUR CHERRY JELLY MELON WITH ALMOND STRAWBERRY PEACH TOMATO SLICED QUINCE APPLE WITH CHESTNUT APPLE JELLY BLUEBERRY PINEAPPLE ORANGE HONEY KIWI FRUITS OF THE WOODS PUMPKIN WITH CHOCOLATE ORANGE WITH CHOCOLATE MANGO/PAPAYA PUMPKIN WITH CHEESE BOLETOS/MUSHROOMS APPLE WITH OLIVES). JAMS PREMIUM GOURMET 200GR, W/fructosis (PHYSALIS, LOVE ESSENCE, PORT WINE JELLY, COFFEE JELLY, VIOLETS JELLY). SUGAR FREE JAMS 270GR (CHERRY SOUR CHERRY JELLY STRAWBERRY PEACH). KOSHER JAMS 270 G (FIG, FRUITS OF THE WOODS, CHERRY, TOMATO, STRAWBERRY, PUMPKIN, PEACH, PUMPKIN SQUASH JAM).