Wine and the art of living: Casal Figueira

About an hour north of Lisbon, there in the small Portuguese town called Vermelha. A small town with a dozen streets, a couple cafes and a few churches, Vermelha is hidden in a beautiful landscape of lush green vineyards with a splendid backdrop of the Serra de Montejunto. Somewhere in Vermelha there is a small…

Heading south but keeping cool: Herdade de Cebolal

“I used to say that our family’s DNA has a special mark: to make wines, to be winemakers,” Isabel Mota Capitão, 4th generation winemaker from Herdade de Cebolal, told me while we strolled through the estate’s vineyards in southern Portugal. Her son and chief winemaker, Luís Mota Capitão, was busy in the winery when I…