Wine regions of Portugal: Tejo
Tejo
In the spring, Portugal’s wine regions spring to life. After a long, gray winter in northern Europe, the country’s warmest time of year is a tantalizing promise of sweet wines and lush vineyards. The Ribatejo region is no exception.
In fact, it has one of the largest areas devoted to wine production in all of Portugal—more than 80 percent of the country’s total area under cultivation. Friends describe it as beautiful and inviting, with rolling hills that are ripe for taming with grapes. “I’m really happy here,” says Joao Carlos Gomes Sousa Nunes, a local winemaker who lives in… Read more