Out of the 5,726 wine entrants that competed at the 2009 Mundusvini International Wine competition, Vidigal Wines was one of the few to place for three of their entered wines.

The 2005 Vidigal Dão, the 2005 Brutalis, and the 2007 Vidigal Reserva each won a silver medal. All of Vidigal Wines’ 6 entries scored above an average of eighty out of one hundred, a great feat for the company. The categories each wine was meticulously judged in comprised of Aroma, Taste, and Overall Impression.

Earlier this year, Portugal renamed the “Estremadura” wine region after its capital, officially naming it the Lisbon wine region, or the região de Lisboa.

The Lisbon region is home to our wineries Vidigal Wines and Caves Bonifácio

In April, the Ministry of Agriculture published a decree stating that wines from the former region of Estremadura will be given the Geographical Indication “Lisbon” . The Regional Wine Commission (CVR) proposed the name change in order to boost the region’s economy, hoping to increase foreign wine sales. The 30,000-hectare region produces an estimated 18 million bottles per year, of which about half are exported.

Not only do the CVR want to increase the ‘image and quality of the wines’, but they also want to increase the ‘percentage of certified wines’. Studies have concluded that changing the name to Lisbon would give the wines more notoriety and would give consumers a better reference as to where the wines are located. They also hoped that by renaming the region, there would be less confusion between the wine regions of Portugal’s Estremadura and Spain’s Extremadura .

The region has been making great strides towards world-class wine production and we are proud to say that many of our Lisbon wines, such as Vidigal Reserva and Senhor do Alto have garnered numerous international awards in recent years.