Angelo Rocha meets with his team at eight in the morning to organize the day’s tasks at Quinta da Comenda, a beautiful property in São Pedro do Sul, a municipality in the Central Portuguese district of Viseu. The estate once belonged to the mother of Afonso Henriques – the first king of Portugal – and then to the Order of Malta, until 1843. The country’s first natural wine was produced here in 1987.
When Angelo’s parents acquired this 86-acre estate in the early 1980s, it was completely abandoned. They turned to old books and local sources to recover its essence. Along the way, they discovered the historical importance of the wine region of Lafões.
