The courage to enact a big shift in family business: from quantity to quality.
We met Pedro back when Vino Vero Lisboa was still an idea in the making.
His enthusiasm and energy transported us to this Portuguese wave of renewal that we didn’t want to miss for a moment. We have been moved by the courage that Pedro showed back in 2009 when he decided to enact a big shift in his family business: from quantity to quality.
He’s the first one in his family with a degree in oenology and in any case the first to renounce certain technicalities such as induced enzymes and yeasts.
Pedro vines are located in Vale da Capucha, a small estate in Torres Vedras, within the Lisboa wine region. He enhances the aromaticity of his whites by working at slightly warmer temperatures, certain that the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, only 10 km away, refreshes the wine must and its refinements to an adequate extent for wines, which affect the perception of iodine and balanced freshness.
Vino Vero Lisboa is the official home of Mr. Marques wines.
Sign this petition so that Venice does not become the world’s biggest museum, with fixed opening and closing times, where people no longer have the right and freedom to live. This trend does not only affect Venice, but all Italian historic centres.
The court of Venice has issued a decree obliging Vino Vero, a natural wine bar with over 1,000 labels, to close early at 11pm. The reason for this is down to a complaint from the tenants on the floor above, according to whom the ‘noise emissions’ coming from the wine bar are intolerable, to the point of compromising their psycho-physical balance.
The judge’s order reads: ‘the anthropic activities connected with the “Vino Vero” restaurant exceed the tolerable threshold of noise emissions (…) even when there are only two people sat at a table and when there are four people on the premises, the noise emissions exceed the threshold of normal tolerability’.
We are faced with a huge paradox: if just two people sitting at a table having a glass of wine is a problem, then the activity of any venue or restaurant operating after 11pm in Venice becomes illegal.
The message which comes across is that Venice after 11pm should close and its inhabitants should stay at home under a curfew, because then even the normal passage of boats and people becomes a disturbance.