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How it came about:
I was born in Lisbon 51 years ago. At 30, I moved to Ponte de Lima, where I graduated in business administration and became an economist. My children, family, friends, music, books, and photography are my passions.
Around 2020, during the difficult times of the pandemic, I was shopping at an online grocery store and noticed that a wine with the word "Nacional" on the label cost about 10 times more than its counterpart without that word.
I looked into the reason, and since I was also looking for a hobby now that my children were independent, the world of wine fit perfectly with my objective: an ancient sector, an interdisciplinary and creative art, and an endless pleasure.
How it developed:
The story that opens this text is that of the wine "Quinta do Noval Vintage Porto" vs. "Quinta Noval Nacional Vintage Porto," the latter made with grapes from vines without American grafts, therefore "national."
Behind these came other stories: the astonishing wine cellars of Tondonia, in Spain, the Italian who went through more than 80 bureaucratic steps to create a vineyard the size of two football fields, the women who made champagne as we know it today, or the German grape Portuguesier, which, after all, is not of Portuguese origin.
How we got here:
All of this led me to take the WSET level 2 course, to visit producers, demarcated regions, and taste after taste, recorded in more than five notebooks, to set up a small "wine library." I also had a blog—through the social network Instagram—for five years, which was hacked in the meantime.
And so this website was born: something of a store, something of a blog in which I hope to share and propose the wines of our life, the wines in our life:
Wines for Life - Wines For Life.