On Travel, Places, Time and Presence
Wine as a Cultural Landscape
More than conventional wine tourism We don't offer wine tourism experiences in the traditional sense. In the Vinho Verde region, wine is part of everyday life - moulded by the land, the climate, the history and the people who have lived with it for generations....
Disconnect to Reconnect: Nature in the Digital Age
Nature as a space for inner regulation Immersion in nature is profoundly beneficial for our well-being. Whether in a small garden, an urban park, remote mountains or rural villages in the countryside, simple contact with living landscapes acts as a...
Alvarinho: the spirit and soul of a territory
A grape variety in dialogue with its territory A grape variety in its territory: that's what we're trying to tell here. Alvarinho on the banks and slopes of the River Minho. Not everywhere - because refinement is, by nature, capricious. And so is this variety. Before going any further,...
The Lightness of Walking
Walking as a gesture of switching off Walking in nature is switching off. It's putting one foot behind the other and moving forwards - slowly. It's suspending the noise of everyday life and responding to an ancient, almost ancestral impulse, a nomadic drive inscribed in the dawn of humanity. There's a...
To Pause in Order to Think. To Think in Order to Live Better
An experience of presence, listening and long time Is there anything more appropriate than immersion in nature to disconnect us from the incessant background noise and acceleration that characterises contemporary urbanised and hyperconnected societies? The philosopher...
Monção and Melgaço + Rías Baixas: A Journey of Discovery
Scenario 1 – The complete journey, from Monção and Melgaço to the Rías Baixas Suppose you arrive in Monção or Melgaço from Porto airport, or from anywhere else in Portugal. Settle in and relax. The next day, set off with us to discover this magnificent sub-region...
Alvarinho: A Grape Without Borders
The cradle of Alvarinho 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...
Walking as an Ancestral Impulse
The ancestral impulse to walk Walking in nature is a primitive impulse. It's an eruption of happiness. A freedom that manifests itself, as Frédéric Gros writes, in the possibility “of being nobody, because the body that walks has no history; it is only...
Monção & Melgaço — Landscape, Vineyards and Identity
Territories that intertwine Monção and Melgaço consolidate a neighbourhood marked by history, culture and geography. More than administrative boundaries, these municipalities act as identity elements that bring communities together, mould them and define them. The symbiosis...
Quinta das Pereirinhas: Family Heritage and the Identity Of Alvarinho
Family, memory and foundation Quinta das Pereirinhas is synonymous with family tradition. Its wine-growing history goes back a long way, rooted in the time when the family's ancestors returned from Brazil and decided to rethink and reorganise farming there....
Palácio da Brejoeira | Vision, Heritage and the Destiny of Alvarinho
Architecture, garden and productive landscape The Brejoeira Palace is undoubtedly one of the grandest and most impressive in the region. Built at the beginning of the 19th century in the neoclassical style, it is part of a vast walled estate, surrounded by extensive gardens of...
Solar de Serrade: Architecture, Memory and Hospitality
An armoured house and identity Solar de Serrade is a typically Minoan armoured house, where the symbols of identity and belonging - arms and coats of arms - affirm a lineage and an ancient relationship with the territory. Imposing and balanced, it is distinguished by its two...
