Caves Ferreira
Historic riverside port wine cellar with vintage bottles aging since eighteen fifteen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Caves Ferreira in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto, follows the life of Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, a young widow who rebuilt a ruined port house in the 1850s, survived a fatal boating accident on the Douro's rapids in 1861, and went on to fight off the vine blight that devastated Europe's vineyards. You'll hear how she built an empire of nearly thirty estates and earned the nickname Ferreirinha. Best heard standing in the cool dark of the cellar itself.
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