"After 10 years of working with the main producers of the Dao region as a Winemaker, I decided to follow my life project: take over my grandfather's estate, Quinta da Mariposa, and produce the wines that I like the most of the Dao region. The vineyard was planted in 1985 and has always been treated like a garden. It is planted with the most typical white and red grapes of the region and it is placed in a land with big granite rocks and an overwhelming view of the highest mountain in continental Portugal, Serra da Estrela. Since I can remember I always participated in the harvest, starting by the hand picking of the grapes and ending whit the foot treading in the lagar, all was made like a big family event. Nowadays, the youngest still participate in the harvest, playing in the fields and playing with the grapes!"

-Lúcia Freitas