Text João Barbosa | Translation Bruno Ferreira
The Portuguese have an immense capability of making up jokes. The British are subtle, somewhat cold and accurately intelligent. The German seem to have no sense of humor, but they do…

Text João Barbosa | Translation Bruno Ferreira
The world’s best wine is portuguese, from my region, from my municipality, from my civil parish,

Text João Barbosa | Translation Bruno Ferreira
Says a friend that traditions are meant to be broken. Good truths and laments fit this provocation.

Text Ilkka Sirén
It’s been quite a year. It was supposed to be a fairly relaxed one but turned out to be one of the busiest. I visited Portugal 7 times last year!

Text João Barbosa | Translation Bruno Ferreira
A weird thing about the word terroir is that it’s probably only known by wine folks. I’ve been hearing faux pas after slip-up regarding the meaning of this French word that has no translation to other languages – affirmation that lacks exhaustive research on my part.

Text João Barbosa| Translation Bruno Ferreira
Some years ago I realized, through a Portuguese wine magazine article that the old regime – a system that prevailed in Europe since the end of the XVI century until the French Revolution – after all still exists.

Text Sarah Ahmed
Each Douro harvest, Luís Sottomayor clocks up between 10,000 and 15,000 kilometres in two months driving back and forth between vineyards and wineries to assess the grapes and make wine. Hard work!

Text Sarah Ahmed
Each Douro harvest, Luís Sottomayor clocks up between 10,000 and 15,000 kilometres in two months driving back and forth between vineyards and wineries to assess the grapes and make wine. Hard work!

Text José Silva
It was a rainy summer weekend, between the 18th and the 21st of September, as otherwise was this summer of 2014, and the harvest had already started, slowly, very carefully.