Fitapreta Chão dos Eremitas Os Paulista White Wine

At the foot of the Serra d'Ossa is this Chão dos Eremitas, the place where the Hermits of the Order of São Paulo, Os Paulistas, chose to plant their vineyards. Two streams bring rainwater down from the Serra to keep the ground cool in the torrid Alentejo heat. These vineyards were of such importance that a Papal Bull of 1397 exempted the Paulistas from vineyard taxes and reinforced their importance. This Paulistas White comes from a plot planted in 1969 in coplantation (mixed vineyards), revealing an Alentejo that has been lost in time.