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
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Baga
Highlights: Filipa Pato and William Wouters Post Quer..s Baga 2023 Bairrada, Portugal
Love this wine, which I bought from a wine shop in Lisbon. The mastery of Baga, maturing it in amphorae
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The wines of Sidónio de Sousa, Bairrada
Bairrada is one of Portugal’s most interesting wine regions, specialising in reds from Baga, but also some really good sparkling
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The wines of Luis Pato, Bairrada, Portugal
Website: http://www.luispato.com/ Luis Pato (which is Portuguese for ‘duck’) is probably the best-known producer in the Bairrada region. For a
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Video: Baga and Bairrada, a star red grape from a beautiful Portuguese region
Jamie Goode heads to the Portuguese wine region of Bairrada, on the trail of the region’s star red grape variety,
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Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal
Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay
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