{"id":39945,"date":"2024-10-04T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/?p=39945"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:21:36","slug":"o-vinho-dos-mortos-esta-vivo-e-recomenda-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/2024\/10\/o-vinho-dos-mortos-esta-vivo-e-recomenda-se\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wine of the Dead is alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1809, during the second French invasion of Portugal, fear spread among the people of what is now the municipality of Boticas. Fearing that the troops would loot their possessions, the population hid everything they could. Wine, the pride and livelihood of many, had an unusual fate: it was buried in the cellars, far from the eyes and looting of the invaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Historic cellar of Vinho dos Mortos in Boticas. Photo TR\/TC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A TESTIMONY TO THE INGENUITY AND RESILIENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF BOTICAS THAT HAS SURVIVED TO THE PRESENT DAY.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Months later, with the threat gone, the locals dug up the precious nectar. Everyone was surprised: it had a lower alcohol content and was slightly fizzy, the result of a natural fermentation process caused by the time spent underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Casa Sousa (founded in 1792) is the only commercial producer of authentic Vinho dos Mortos, produced exclusively on the slopes of the town of Boticas. Photo TR\/TC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The peculiarity of its flavour and the unique way in which it was preserved earned it a name that survives to this day \u2014 Vinho dos Mortos (Wine of the Dead). Far from being condemned to be forgotten, this tradition took root in the local culture and is still preserved and celebrated by Casa Sousa, as a testament to the ingenuity, resilience and identity of a region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No in\u00edcio do s\u00e9culo XIX, em 1809, durante a segunda invas\u00e3o francesa a Portugal, o medo espalhou-se entre as gentes do que \u00e9 hoje o concelho de Boticas. Temendo que as tropas pilhassem os seus bens, a popula\u00e7\u00e3o tratou de esconder tudo o que p\u00f4de. O vinho, orgulho e sustento de muitos, teve um destino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7742,3,1],"tags":[5096,7576,7594],"class_list":{"0":"post-39945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artigos","8":"category-divulgacao","9":"category-reportagem","10":"tag-boticas","11":"tag-casa-sousa","12":"tag-vinho-dos-mortos","13":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracallaeci.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}