"That was due to Crabtree's expertise and flair during a wine tasting that lasted until sunrise, and that is still remembered in the neighbouring town of 'Vila Real´as the "Night of the Englishman', that Don José Mateus first realised the potential of his Estate's Rosés as suitable for the English palate"

Santos, Bartolomeu dos, 'Joseph Crabtree and the Caliph of Fonthill', 1985, in The Crabtree Orations (1954-1984), ed. Brian Bennett & Negley Harte, The Crabtree Foundation, London, 1997
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Fundação José Saramago

Fundação José Saramago

Nota no final do texto comemorativo do 1º aniversário da Fundação José Saramago:

E, por fim, para Rogério Ribeiro e Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos o nosso comovido carinho: foram os primeiros a retratar a obra de Saramago, os primeiros a morrer, são os mais amados dos nossos corações.