Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.
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Video: with Filipa Pato in her old vineyards in Bairrada, Portugal, which she farms with the help of pigs
Filipa Pato began making her own wines in 2001, starting with three rented plots. Since then she and her husband
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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable
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Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative producer in Portugal’s Bairrada region
Website: https://priorlucas.pt/en/ Back in June 2025 I spent a day with Rui Lucas, who is making some really interesting wines
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Transmission: an exciting new wine project in Portugal’s Bairrada wine region
Transmission is an exciting new wine project from Bairrada. It’s a partnership between three people, and was begun as a
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Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable
António Maia Ferreira Faria was a celebrated producer of classic, long-lived Bairrada under the Gonçalves Faria label, working with some
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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
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Mira do Ó: beautiful terroir-focused wines from Dão, Bairrada and the Alentejo
Website: https://miradoovinhos.com/ Nuno Mira do Ó is the dude behind Mira do Ó Vinhos, and he now has three projects.
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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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