Villa Oeiras Wine Cellar (Portugal)

Barrels holding rare Carcavelos wine are lined neatly in a row at Villa Oeiras' cellar near Lisbon, Portugal. The facility was a former 18th-century palace.

Barrels holding rare Carcavelos wine are lined neatly in a row at Villa Oeiras‘ cellar near Lisbon, Portugal. The facility was a former 18th-century palace of the Marquis de Pombal, a renowned nobleman who helped shepherd the country through crisis following the cataclysmic 1755 earthquake that demolished most of Lisbon. Click the above image to enlarge, click to view my high-resolution photo gallery, or click to read my feature article “Carcavelos: Wine of the Legends.”

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