Vineyards of the Island of Pico

Have needed five hundred years of human effort to extract the rock of the volcanic soil, to transform it into arable land and create a landscape of the only vineyard in the world declared by the UNESCO Patrimony of Humanity. It is about a gigantic labyrinth of stone on the banks of the sea integrated by small squares of grapevines protected from the wind and warmed by the Sun. They are so many walls that put in row they would give more than one turn to the land. Of this epic work the famous wine was born verdelho, perfected throughout the centuries by the skill of Franciscan and Carmelite friars. Dry or sweet, this wine, which travelled up to the lounges of the czars of Russia, knows even better in a picturesque warehouse.