history
SÉC. XVI
D. Manuel I chooses the wine of this region to embark on caravels with the recommendation to "be drunk only by the captain and his peers and to be offered to the people that you may find."
In the letter of the Discovery of Brazil, Pedro Vaz de Caminha mentions the satisfaction of the indigenous when drinking the wine offered by the Portuguese, still today it is said in Brazil, that this was the wine taken by Pedro Alvares Cabral.
It is also in this century that the reference to the wines of these lands appears inscribed for the first time in the history of Portugal. Duarte Nunes de Leão, refers in his book, Description of the Kingdom of Portugal, "In Alemtejo there are the wines of the city of Évora, being the most estimed the ones of Peramanca, in flavour and subsistence: of which, used to say a great doctor, that by being friends to the stomach and nature, they put so much strength in a glass like a bread does, wine and meat from other places."
