The heat, at 35C, was nearly bearable that day. Of course as with all things weather related in Europe over the last decade or so, this wasn’t ‘normal’, especially for the very northern region of Minho, Portugal. Gonçalo Sousa Lopes, the current member of the family to run Adega Casa da Torre did emphasize that things are cyclical. Heat happened like this 75 years ago he claimed. Just as I was about to wonder if he was a Climate Change denier, he said that the key difference now, it’s far […]


