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Is this the most beautiful winery in the world?

Posted: April 13th, 2010 | By Neil Pendock


After Sunday lunch with Joe Berardo, an invitation to visit his Quinta Bacalhôa. Built in 1480, if Portugal ever gets really serious about wine tourism, the rest of the world can pack up and visit Disneyland. Joe has a thing about gardens, which is clear in his sensitive restoration of the estate.

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But Bacalhôa is far more than a living museum of wine. In 1969, the first Cabernet Sauvignon vines in Portugal were planted here and now winemaker Filipa Tomaz da Costa makes next level Bordeaux blends one hour south of Lisbon.

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Plaasjapie

April 13, 2010 at 1:08 pm

Neil, please ask Joe how he got all his loot out of South Africa – esp seeing he left in the heyday of Forex Controls. A man can learn from a guy as smart as this :-)

 

Asigurari Locuinte

September 8, 2011 at 5:54 pm

I think e envy Filipa Tomaz da Costa and her villa and her wine :)

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    Called "South Africa's most influential wine writer" by DrinksBiz (NZ), a "wijngoeroe" and "beminnelijk maar snoeihard" by De Telegraaf, a "Master of SA Writing" by Ernst Gouws and voted “most trusted palate” by readers of WINE magazine, Neil Pendock is South Africa’s leading Indie drinks commentator.

    An "enthusiastic amateur", he owns a small farm on the Paardeberg which used to supply a few grapes to Swartland Winery, a producer he never wrote about. After two decades in the spittoon, he retains a healthy disregard for the anoraks, bowties and Emperors of drink and their new clothes.