Where there is no wine there is no love. Euripides. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin. February is the month of love, and what pairs better with love and its celebration, than wine? Not much, to be honest. However, there are a few things that match perfectly with the amazing pair of love and wine: flowers, chocolate, the perfect surrounding, and, of course, the most special company! When we first started Wine With a View in the summer of 2014, at our flagship location at the Castle of S. Jorge, it had never crossed our minds that it would be just the perfect setting for all kinds of super romantic...
With this week’s completion of our very first #winewithmyview photography contest, we believe it is time to say thank you. Thank you to everybody who participated in the contest, sharing their favorite Wine With a View moments, letting us know that they have special memories connected to our glasses, with their views. Thank you to everyone who voted and took part in some way in the contest. Thank you to Jolanta, who was our first champion and shared such a wonderful photo, of our glass with her beautiful view in Budapest. She took the glass with her to enjoy the Wine With a View experience, far from where it started in Lisbon, but still connected to us! We prepared her...
To celebrate the 870th anniversary of the conquest of Wine With a View’s flagship location, the Saint George’s Castle, the Swiss watch company Tissot launched an exclusively Portuguese special edition. Para celebrar o 870o aniversário da conquista da localização principal da Wine With a View, o castelo de São Jorge, a companhia de relógios suíça Tissot lançou uma edição especial exclusivamente portuguesa. In 1147 Dom Afonso Henriques conquered Lisbon and the iconic castle in the noble area of the medieval city from the Moors, who constructed it in the 11th century. In 1910 the fortification was declared a National Monument. Em 1147 Dom Afonso Henriques conquistou Lisboa e o castelo emblemático na zona nobre da cidade medieval, aos mouros,...
The “largest tech conference in the world” is back to Lisbon! Between November 6th-9th, 2017, the largest and most global gathering of CEOs and journalists from all over the planet is taking place in the FIL and Altice Arena in the Portuguese Capital. The incredibly fast-growing event started in 2010 in Dublin, Ireland with the intention of connecting the technology community with all industries. Its first edition counted with 400 attendees and has currently expended to over 60.000 from more than 170 countries and is considered Europe’s largest and most important technology, entrepreneurship and innovation marketplace. This year, 1.400 investors and 2.250 exhibitors are participating in the meeting and the over 20 conferences that are happening simultaneously, focusing on different...
The água-pé is a typical Portuguese wine-like beverage that is traditionally served, along with chestnuts, on the Saint Martin’s day on the 11th November. The legend tells that, when the young Saint Martin (São Martinho in Portuguese) found a freezing homeless person, he promptly cut his cape in half and gave it you the man to warm him up. To celebrate this gesture, God created the brief Saint Martin’s summer every year around that day. And it is exactly in that short break of the cold autumn that the wine of that year’s harvest was ready to be opened. In Portuguese, there are even some popular sayings about this phenomenon: “No São Martinho, vai à adega e abre o vinho”...
