Lisboa Wines
Visit the City, Taste the Region
Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city, is one of the world’s great, small capital cities. Outside the city center, you can find amazing wineries and vineyard sights – a short 30-minute drive. It’s so close that you can’t visit the city and miss the wine region.
Offering visitors a compelling mixture of heritage, culture, youth, modernism and also great food, Lisbon is becoming a popular destination for short break holidays. The city gives its name to the wine region that thrives to the north and the west, on the northern side of the Tagus (Tejo) River - although it is one of the oldest wine regions in Portugal, the region formerly known as “Região da Estremadura”, only recently changed its name to “Região de Lisboa”. This change reflected the renewal the region was facing. Producers, big and small, old and new, began modernizing their vineyards, wineries and tourism services. This, along with their efforts to improve winemaking techniques making the best out of each terroir and also introducing international grapes and making the best of the indigenous ones, producing amazing blends between them, while being able to breakthrough to some of the toughest markets in the world. All of this (and also to avoid the mistake to the Spanish region “Extremadura”) led to change the region’s name to what it is today as it also resonates with the actual city.
Though it’s finally getting the international recognizing it deserves, perhaps because the change is barely ten years old, and although is the second most productive region of Portugal, the Lisboa’s wines remains undiscovered by many wine lovers, even locals, meaning the region is still one of the best kept treasures of Portugal that everyone must discover.
Lisbon offers visitors a compelling mixture of heritage and culture, youth and modernism and great food