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QM - Quintas de Melgaço | Monção e Melgaço
Quintas de Melgaço is a wine appellation founded by Amadeu Abílio Lopes, a successful emigrant to Brazil in the mid-20th century. On his return home, he was imbued with a bold and visionary spirit and challenged other Melgaço natives to embark on the endeavour...
Quinta da Cheira | Monção e Melgaço
Quinta da Cheira is a project that is intertwined with Carlos Machado, its creator. It is located in Mazedo, Monção, just a few metres from the superb Brejoeira Palace. In the few hectares of vineyards he owns, Carlos Machado favours permanent involvement with the...
Valados de Melgaço | Monção e Melgaço
Valados de Melgaço is one of the landmarks of Melgaço and the sub-region of Monção and Melgaço. With it, we continue the family tradition of wine production, cemented generation after generation. Marked by its commitment to product quality, resulting from...
Rebouça | Monção & Melgaço
REBOUÇA is a relatively new, family-run project. It is the brainchild of oenologist Luís Euclides Rodrigues. It is a designation for a wine with author's expressiveness, based on the distinctive Alvarinho grape variety. Rebouça does not have its own vineyard, but the grapes are...
Dona Paterna | Monção e Melgaço
The Dona Paterna brand, created in 1990, is intertwined with the entrepreneurial nature of Carlos Codesso, one of the pioneers in planting continuous vineyards of the Alvarinho variety in Melgaço. The name is intrinsically associated with Quinta da Carvalheira, located in...
Dom Ponciano | Monção and Melgaço
Don Ponciano is an appellation associated with the slopes of Paderne, in the territory of Melgaço. But Don Ponciano is also a leitmotif that allows us to travel deep into history, all the way back to the founding of Portugal. It is a tribute to Ponciano de Abreu, son of José Joaquim...
CityNature | Wear
Be a Transformative Mind is the motto of We Want Green. It's a slogan that projects forward, that stimulates the imagination, that believes in the future as a malleable and open possibility. With the "Slow Tourism" strand we seek to explore...
Little Sprouts | Monção & Melgaço
Pequenos Rebentos is a designation created by Márcio Lopes, a curious and talented winemaker. A "researcher and an experimentalist", says Nuno Guedes Vaz Pires from Revista de Vinhos. "One of Portugal's most ingenious wine creators," says Fernando Melo of...
Encosta da Capela | Monção and Melgaço
Encosta da Capela is a wine designation from the territory of Monção and Melgaço, in the Vinhos Verdes sub-region. It is the product of a decades-long family history that consisted of the progressive conversion of land dedicated to growing corn and vines, a...
Fishing grounds of the River Minho | Heritage for the Future
The fishing grounds of the River Minho are a precious treasure, due to their ingenuity, antiquity and the survival support they have represented for centuries. Between Monção and Melgaço, on a 37-kilometre stretch where the waters are wilder, there are around 900 fishing grounds....
Quinta das Alvaianas | Monção e Melgaço
Quinta das Alvaianas is located in Melgaço, in the wine sub-region of Monção and Melgaço, the territory par excellence of the precious Alvarinho grape variety. It's a project created by José Rodrigues, who planted the first vines in 1996 and four years later began...
Sistelo, cultural landscape and national monument
Sistelo, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, is a village as remote as it is special. It is a Cultural Landscape and National Monument, a sanctuary of biodiversity, a luxuriant garden on the slopes of the crystal-clear and inspiring River Vez. The best way to discover this place...
