Blog

Bottle of Vale da Capucha Palhete 2023, a Portuguese low-intervention pale red from the Lisboa region
Portuguese Natural Wine: The Small Producers We Pour and Sell
The Portuguese natural wine we stock in Graça: the small growers behind each bottle, palhete and talha, how to pick a bottle and how to keep and serve it at... Read more...
Bottle of Vieira de Sousa Vintage Port 2019, a young Vintage Port from the Douro
Which Port to buy: a guide to Port styles for your table
Which Port to buy as a gift, for a cheese board, for dessert or for a birth year? Our picks by occasion, how to read a Port label and how... Read more...
Hand-cut acorn-fed presunto de bolota from Casa do Porco Preto, a food souvenir to bring back from Lisbon
What to bring back from Lisbon: the food and drink we would pack
The food and drink we would pack to bring back from Lisbon: tinned fish, olive oil, Port, Madeira, cheese and Azores tea, plus how to get the bottles home in... Read more...
Bottle of Viúva Gomes Colares White 2022, a DOC Colares wine from Malvasia de Colares
Colares wine: Ramisco, sand vines and Viúva Gomes
Colares wine grows on ungrafted Ramisco and Malvasia de Colares vines dug into the sand of the Sintra coast. What it tastes like, how to serve it and which bottles... Read more...
Queijo São Jorge DOP aged 24 months, a cow's milk cheese from the Azores
Portuguese cheese guide: Serra da Estrela, Azeitão and the rest
Portuguese cheese explained from our counter in Graça: thistle rennet, the DOP cheeses from Serra da Estrela to São Jorge, how to serve them and which wine to open with... Read more...
Bottle of Barbeito 10 Year Old Verdelho Madeira wine
Madeira wine guide: grapes, sweetness, ageing and Port compared
Our Madeira wine guide, as we tell it at the counter in Graça: the four grapes from dry to sweet, Tinta Negra, Rainwater, what the age on the label means,... Read more...