The complicity of two partners and friends, Antonio Maçanita and Nuno Farias, is breathed in the tasting room at the 100 Maneiras restaurant in Chiado.
We are about to taste peculiar wines produced in Porto Santo, an island geologically one of the oldest of the Portuguese archipelagos, and where there are 14 hectares of cultivated grapes.
For them the impossible happens only while finding the way to make it possible, and so they managed to make wine from these old vines (40-80 years old) of traditional creeping conduction and protected from the winds by structures woven with reeds, with calcareous soils of sandy loam texture. During this process, they needed to convince local producers in order to achieve their goal. One of the first to join the adventure was Mr. Cardina to produce the first wine.
Nuno comments that this small production in Porto Santo is the result of a social change that is happening and that they hope it will be as successful as it was in the Azores.
