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Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s Bairrada region (updated with new notes, June 2025)

François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural

Love this wine, which I bought from a wine shop in Lisbon. The mastery of Baga, maturing it in amphorae

Bairrada is one of Portugal’s most interesting wine regions, specialising in reds from Baga, but also some really good sparkling

Website: http://www.luispato.com/ Luis Pato (which is Portuguese for ‘duck’) is probably the best-known producer in the Bairrada region. For a

Jamie Goode heads to the Portuguese wine region of Bairrada, on the trail of the region’s star red grape variety,

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay