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The Benefits of Nature in the Digital Age
Immersion in nature is highly beneficial for our general well-being. Whether in a small garden, a city park, in the remote mountains or in small rural villages in the countryside. This seems so obvious to us that it needs no clipping support...
Monção and Melgaço: The Aura of a Territory
A grape variety in its own territory, that's what we want to tell you. Alvarinho on the banks and slopes of the River Minho. Not everywhere, because refinement has always been capricious. And this variety is capricious. But before we go any further, let's take a look back. What gives the unmistakable aura to...
Floating in the Lightness of the Air
Walking in nature means switching off, putting one foot behind the other and moving forward... slowly. It's responding to an ancestral impulse, to a nomadic drive encoded at the dawn of humanity, to an excitement as mysterious as it is magical To walk at a slow pace is to devour with your gaze until...
Nature Coaching
Is there anything more appropriate than immersing ourselves in nature to disconnect from the incessant background noise and acceleration that characterises contemporary urbanised and hyperconnected societies? Philosopher Samantha Rose Hill, in a recent interview with the newspaper...
Disconnect and Reconnect
Walking in mountainous territory, in remote settings, on carefully chosen trails, full of sensory stimuli, traces of medieval heritage and marks of ancient rural culture, is an experience that is as remarkable as it is liberating. Whether...
Alvarinho/Albariño Territory | Road Trip
SCENARIO 1 Suppose you arrive in Monção or Melgaço from Porto airport or any other part of Portugal. You stay there. The next day, set off with us to discover this magnificent sub-region of Vinho Verde, which is also an integral part of...
Rías Baixas + Monção & Melgaço: The Alvarinho Territory
The territory of Alvarinho wine is the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula, the Galician Rías Baixas and Monção & Melgaço in the Vinho Verde region. Here we don't really care which side of the border it came from first, whether it was the Cistercian monks who brought this remarkable variety...
Hiking | Peneda Gerês National Park & Minho Highlands
Walking in nature is a primitive impulse, an eruption of happiness, pure freedom. Freedom that translates into the freedom "to be nobody, because the body that walks has no history, it's just a flow of immemorial life. Thus, we are an animal of two...
Monção & Melgaço: The Expression of Terroir
The name Monção e Melgaço solidifies the neighbourly relationship between these two municipalities in the far north-west of Portugal. And as we well know, a municipality is much more than a simple administrative division, it's a powerful identity element that brings...
Quinta de Alderiz | Monção e Melgaço
Quinta de Alderiz is a property located in the municipality of Monção. A family tradition, owned by the Pinheiro family since the mid-20th century, it produces Alvarinho wine on around 12 hectares of continuous vineyards. The vineyards, with an average age of 25 years, are...
Quinta das Pereirinhas | Monção and Melgaço
Quinta das Pereirinhas is synonymous with family tradition. It's a heritage in the cultivation of vines that goes back a long way, when the ancestors of the current family returned from emigration in Brazil and decided to rethink and reorganise the way they understood and practised agriculture...
(Dis)connect
To disconnect from the overwhelming psychic rhythm that characterises life in contemporary urban societies in order to reconnect with the ancestral nomadic impulse. To the yearning for wandering, for movement with no other purpose than to advance one foot after the other, diluted in the magnetism...
