The wine at the monks’ table was “Claret” (pale pink wines, resulting from the fermentation of dark skin and pale skin grapes, from extinct wine varieties) to symbolize the

Monastery of Santa Maria de Maceira Dão. 1188.

The retribution (lagarádiga) to the wine press owner was paid in goods: “soft wine”.”.

Wine press base. Prazias (Dão).

White grape-stomping. Mosaic.

Grapevines with a roman pruning on willow’s top.

Analytical wine control.

Male wild grapevine - that doesn’t bear grapes.

Uva-Cão grapevine variety leaf.

Grapevine leaf attacked by the powdery mildew fungus.