Wineries for sale in Azores - Portugal

The region of the Atlantic Islands, located in the southeast of Portugal facing Africa, is the most remote region of the country and has wineries in its districts of Madeira, Porto Santo and Azores.

The Azores is made up of 9 islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, located approximately 1.600 km west of Portugal and approximately 1.125 km southeast of the island of Pico and has marked the style of Azorean wine, between Europe and America; divided into 3 groups:

1. Western Group (Corvo and Flores), 

2. Central Group (Terceira, São Jorge, Graciosa, Faial and Pico)  

3. Eastern Group (Santa Maria and São Miguel). 

The characteristic landscape is complemented by its own architecture. On the one hand, there are the elegant, two or three-storey manor houses of the vineyard owners, built in the traditional way with volcanic stone. But there are also smaller, more modest ones where the grape harvesters lived. It was a way of not having to go back and forth to their places of residence and thus remain there continuously while this activity lasted.

Cachorro. This is one of the towns that best preserves the wine tradition of Pico. Its noble houses, those of the grape harvesters, and even a curious well in the middle of the village where rainwater was collected, taking care not to dig too deep as otherwise the water from the sea, which is just a few metres away, would appear. In that furious Atlantic it was difficult to build a port to bring out the wine in the barrels. That's why imagination came to the fore and the ‘rola pipas’ came into being. In the space that was left open between the volcanic rocks, a small concrete ramp was built so that the barrels could roll and reach the ocean to be loaded onto the ships.

All the islands have different landscapes, but there is a common denominator in all of them: the famous currais (lava stone barns).

Viticulture in the Azores has always been very important, and nowadays their wines are fashionable and much talked about, because of their particularity and because they are the proof of the conquest of wild territories by mankind. However, its fame is not recent, it dates from several centuries ago when, due to plagues and bad luck, the wine development of its islands came to a halt.

Thanks to the persistence of some producers and the installation of wine cellars on the islands, by renowned oenologists such as Anselmo Mendes and António Maçanita, they have helped to put the archipelago's wines back on the map.