AZORES WINES AND VINEYARDS The vineyard landscape of the bays of Santa Maria Island is more than 500 years old and is beautiful and seductive. These are lands where heroic winemaking is carried out, because it is extremely arduous and difficult, which is now starting again after almost disappearing in the 60s of the last century. A story about the Azores that I wrote for Grandes Escolhas magazine.
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