What is it?

This is an English lectured course, by our own Olavo Silva Rosa, for everyone who appreciates Portuguese wine and would like to understand it better.

How Portuguese wine got side-tracked of the industrial revolution and, unintentionally, it became a mechanism of cultural preservation?

This course is a reflection about Portugal's main wine regions, their climate, their soils and how blending makes the grape variety become irrelevant.

First Lesson
Portuguese Wine Geography

Portuguese map analysis through climate and soils:
is Portugal split North to South or East to West?

Portuguese grape culture

Tasted regions:
Lisboa
Vinho Verde
Douro
Dão
Bairrada

Second Lesson
Portuguese Wine History

The Romans influence in Iberian wine culture

The Cistercian Monks in Portugal

Portuguese maritime exploration and it's influence in Portuguese wine culture

Tasted regions:
Alentejo
Lisboa
Madeira
Douro

So who is Olavo?

Olavo Silva Rosa is responsible for Praça's wines and Winery, in love with stories and rocks.

You can find him in his telluric lair, our eno-geological mezzanine.

This is where drinking connoisseurs rest from their everyday hustle and bustle, where glasses fly over the table and touch thirsty mouths, where bottles open generously and where his family of rocks serenely rest on the height of their 200 million years.

Information

PORTUGUESE WINE FOR NEWCOMERS
A special course for English speakers

January 9th and 10th, 2023
7pm to 10pm

Price: €140 (2 days)

Includes:
10 different Portuguese wines
Cheese and charcuterie snack board

Where

Praça

Travessa do Grilo 1, 1950-147 Lisboa
or
Av. Infante Dom Henrique 141, 1950-406

Parking Address
Rua da Manutenção nr. 71, 1900-319 Lisboa


24h from Monday to Sunday