List of products by brand Casas Altas

The Producer

I was born in Coimbra and was baptized a month later at Souropires. I grew up in Coimbra but my summers were spent in Souropires. My parents are both from Beira Alta (Sabugal and Souropires) and had five children, with me being the oldest and only one with a taste for Souropires. We have always had more affinity for Souropires, where my maternal grandmother lived, in a family house that was rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century, after the French invasions. My grandchildren are at least the eighth generation in the same house. I studied at the School of Agricultural Regents (Coimbra and Santarém) and Medicine (Coimbra and Lisbon). For two and a half years I lived and practiced medicine in Norway. It was in Scandinavia that I woke up to the world of wine, especially with Swedish friends.

When, by inheritance, the first vineyards came to my father's estate, my brother João and I thought it would be sad and there would be no interest in loving viticulture and then delivering the grapes to the cooperative. So, in 1994, I produced my first red. A wine produced from grapes from vines recently planted and from old vines that existed in Mortório. From here came a claret wine, fresh, not very easy to drink, but which is still in shape today. The brand was then "Rogenda".

Today I continue to seek to respect viticulture and grapes and to make wine with a minimum of intervention.