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Wine With a View presents: Wine Tasting Experiences!

Here at Wine With a View we strive to grow and improve every day to be able to provide our guests the most amazing and unforgettable moments. Therefore, we are very proud to announce our newest addition to our experiences: The Wine With a View Tastings! We created five unique experiences of different categories, so that everyone can choose their favorites! Our packages include the Portuguese Wines Tasting; the Sparkling Wines Tasting; the Port, Madeira, Moscatel and Ginja Tasting; the Best in Class Tasting and the Wine With a View Wines and Delicacies Experience, which includes some of Portugal’s most delicious treats, such as the famous Pastel de Nata, artisanal Wine With a View crackers, codfish cakes and a cheese...

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Improving skills, getting better every day

After a long and dry winter, Portugal has finally been blessed with a very much needed rain. For us at Wine With a View, that means that we have to close, but not that we stand still! We always strive to learn more, improve our skills, boost our knowledge to keep making our guests’ experience the best we can! .  Depois de um inverno longo e seco, Portugal foi finalmente abençoado pela chuva tão preciosa. Para nós na Wine With a View isso significa que temos de fechar, mas não que ficamos parados! Estamos constantemente empenhados em aprender mais, melhorar as nossas capacidades e aumentar o nosso conhecimento para continuar a fazer a experiência dos nossos visitantes a melhor possível!...

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Speaking of love

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...

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Traditional Portuguese sweets and pastries

In a previous blogpost about Christmas wines, we have already referred to some traditional Portuguese sweets and pastries and now the time has come to make your mouth water some more. Today we would like to take you on a journey through our country, which is small in dimension but huge in gastronomical variety. Some of them you might already have heard of, others a worth to keep in the back of your mind for your next Portugal trip! From north to south, here is our list of delicious Portuguese pastries! Small hint: All of them taste even better when combined with a great wine, and of course, an amazing view! As a little extra, since it’s almost Christmas, some...

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Win(e)ter-Wonderland - Christmas wine traditions

It’s Christmas time! And that means, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! When the days get shorter and the weather colder, what’s better than getting cozy, light some candles and sip some nice wine to warm up? Nothing? We think so, too! The festive season is full of traditions and wine has always played a key role in many countries’ Christmas preparation rituals. Here is a list of different wine related customs for the holy holiday! Grab your own favorite winter wine, sit back and get inspired to try something new; or even to travel to experience some of these delicious beverages in this year’s merry season! Tell me what you’re drinking – I tell you where you’re...

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