Wine cellar Mendes Porto Martins

This wonderful wine cellar is located in Quinta da Madredeus a quiet and privileged place of Porto Martins, has a wide space surrounded by vineyards, fruit trees and other cultures, pure air, radiant sunshine excellent space to rest and relax with the chirping of birds.
From this Cellar we can have the dazzling privilege of watching the sea, the mountains and the countryside.
This house is a T1 plus a sofa bed that is in the living room, the living room with sofa, flat screen TV in common with a large and complete kitchen, with fridge, microwave, toaster, coffee machine and other utensils kitchen.
The double bed room with bedside table, fact guard. The bathroom has shower, bidet and hand basin. Sleeps two people, having a sofa bed that can accommodate one more person.
It has private park, with table and chairs on the patio, barbecue, garden, vineyards and fruit trees around.
The name of this locality is at the same time the name given in the Azores to two different entities, one of which refers to a traditional sweet mass made with spices and the other to burnt earth born of volcanoes (black basalt). In this case the Biscuits are lands formed by lava from volcanic eruptions.
It is a zone of important winemaking tradition, precisely because the burned land is poor and little more to give than vineyard that still has to be protected from the weather by curraletas made with the basalt stone itself, an example of the struggle of men against elements.
The Verdelho wine produced here is of excellent quality and with great tradition, it was already consumed in the ships at the time of the Portuguese discoveries, because it was a product that could be held well at sea.
The beginning of the cultivation of the vineyard in the Biscoitos is unknown, but it must be assumed that it began with the cultivation of wheat and other products indispensable to the sustenance of the settlers. The vine variety grape variety appears as the oldest. In times past the wine was of such abundance that in the parish, in 1649, was exchanged a kite of wine for five mackerels and a penny. Due to the plague of Filoxera that attacked the culture in century XIX, this one entered in a strong decline and only recovered again around 1870 with the introduction of new varieties resistant to the disease and that later they were again grafted.
Curraletas of vines in Biscoitos, in winter season.
Having been elevated to the parish in 1556, it has two churches and several hermitages. Here is a Wine Museum, founded in 1990 by the Brum Farm House, by Francisco Maria Brum, where it is possible to appreciate a vast set of instruments related to vintage, photographs and historical documents also referring to wine and vintage.
It is in this museum and house that the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Verdelho dos Biscoitos Wine, established in 1993, is installed.
They were uncultivated land that Francisco Maria Brum converted into sources of wealth thanks to the victorious day of wine grapevation and wine enlargement. The first foot of the new grapes planted, already for more than nine decades the time destroyed still existing the second foot of vine in the place called Canada of Salga.