Quinta de Chocapalha Lisboa Vinho Tinto 2020

Quinta de Chocapalha is beautifully sited on the sunny hillsides of Portugal’s Lisboa region, north-east of Lisbon. The owners Paulo and Alice Tavares da Silva bought Quinta de Chocapalha in the eighties, totally convinced about its true potential as a source of great wine and immediately embarked on an investment program, starting in the 45 hectares of vineyard.

By 2000 the most recent vineyard plantings were reaching maturity and the quality of fruit had greatly improved. At this time most of the production was sold to larger cooperatives; however, with their daughter - Sandra Tavares da Silva- fast establishing her reputation as an extremely talented winemaker, working alongside Cristiano Van Zellar at Vale Dona Maria in the Douro, the family elected to start producing their own wines. Sandra, along with making the wines at her family’s Chocapalha estate, works with Cristiano on a number of Douro projects and, with her husband Jorge Serodio de Borges, established Wine & Soul, famous for its Pintas wines. Sandra was named as Portugal's “Wine Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2013!