Pedro Lopes Vieira x St. Vincent

PEDRO LOPES VIEIRA IS TAKING US TO PORTUGAL
We spend rather a lot of time in France and Italy around here, so for one night we thought we’d pack our bags and go somewhere a little different.

Fortunately, we know just the man to show us around.

Lisbon born and raised, Pedro Lopes Vieira has wine very much in the blood. His family has tended a small organic vineyard and winery for decades, though Pedro took a slight detour on the way into the wine trade, spending five years playing professional football before moving to Toronto and helping establish the province’s first agency dedicated entirely to Portuguese wine.

That was where Esporão entered the story. Pedro already knew the wines well and in 2007 they persuaded him to come home and work with them exclusively. Almost twenty years later he’s their Export Markets Director and has spent much of that time taking the wines of Portugal out into the world.

This time, we’ve persuaded him to bring Portugal to us.

Pedro will be taking us on a tour through three very different corners of the country, from Quinta do Ameal in the Lima Valley to Herdade do Esporão in Alentejo and Quinta dos Murças on the banks of the Douro. Five wines, three regions and – knowing Pedro – rather a few wonderful stories along the way.

Oh, and we’ll cook dinner to accompany these fantastic wines too.

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