"You really need to be gifted with great stubbornness not to let this traditional, scarce, but wonderful way of producing wine fall.""
"You really need to be gifted with great stubbornness not to let this traditional, scarce, but wonderful way of producing wine fall.""
The Czar has won several awards
and medals, including a gold medal at the Moscow International Fair in 2011, out of 5,000 submitted to the competition.
When Fortunato Garcia talks about his wine, Czar, he keeps coming back to one word: madness. Nothing about his project—which his father began on the island of Pico in Portugal’s Azores archipelago in the 1960s—makes much sense. The grapes are grown on a tiny volcanic island with a violent climate in the middle of the Atlantic. The wind and the salt don’t let up. The vines are old, and their yields are tiny.
Único en el mundo, regalo de los dioses, el vino de los zares... En la Isla de Pico, una pequeña ínsula azoreña perdida en el Atlántico y custodiada por el volcán que le da nombre, se produce uno de los vinos más selectos del mundo. Se trata de un vino dulce totalmente natural, con siglos de historia a sus espaldas y una elaboración singular cuyo secreto forma parte de un legado de varias generaciones.
