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A vintage held in trust
Notes from a September harvest at one of the oldest quintas in the Cima Corgo, where the cellar is older than the constitution and the visiting book is kept by hand.
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Notes from the coast
Occasional writing on Portuguese houses, the people who keep them, and the slow patience of living well in this country.
The architecture of pine light
On the precise hour when the Atlantic afternoon turns through the pine, and why every serious house in Comporta is designed around it.
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Stone, again
A short reading of the limestone fronts of PrÃncipe Real and Lapa, and what they ask of the people who buy them.
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Houses that prefer mist
The romantic estates of Sintra are misunderstood by the visiting market. A note on why they are also, quietly, the steadiest asset on the peninsula.
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The slow craft of keeping
On gardeners, conservators, household managers and the small, unglamorous skills that keep a Portuguese house upright for a hundred more years.
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