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”...
September 9th, 2017 was a very special day for our little Wine With a View truck! On that lovely Saturday, it dressed up elegantly and made its way to Braga for a unique view: the beautiful bride Joana and her newlywed husband Tiago! O dia 9 de setembro de 2017 foi um dia muito especial para a nossa pequena mota Wine With a View! Nesse lindo sábado, vestiu-se de forma elegante e foi rumo a Braga para admirar uma vista única: os recém-casados, Joana e Tiago! The happy pair exchanged their wedding vows and then, for the first time as a freshly married couple, led their families and friends to their reception in an enchanting outdoor...
In the exceptionally mild and sunny beginning of October in Lisbon, an international Harvard Club delegation gathered together for their annual alumni meeting, which took place on a Saturday evening at the Castelo de São Jorge. To welcome the approximately 80 leaders of several European and American Harvard Clubs, Wine with a View organized a festive reception in front of the famous Moorish hilltop castle in the historic center of Lisbon. Neste início de outubro de Lisboa, excecionalmente caloroso e ensolarado, a delegação internacional do clube Harvard juntou-se para a sua reunião anual de antigos alunos. Esta, neste ano, teve lugar na tarde de sábado no castelo de São Jorge. Para dar as boas vindas aos cerca de 80 líderes...
Let’s take a moment and let the words «Wine With a View» sink in and think about its meaning! What is «Wine With a View»? What message does «Wine With a View» convey? For us, «Wine With a View» combines two of the most enjoyable things in life: delicious wine in all its variations and the simple beauty of some of the most amazing views our world has to offer! Together, they invite us to take a break from our (sometimes) stressful life, sit back and experience unique, relaxing and memorable moments. And the only way to make this kind of moments even more special? Sharing them! Because, as the old Swedish proverb states: shared joy is doubled joy!...
