The Magic Mountain

Land, heroic birth of Pico’s verdelho wine. I cannot even imagine the number of square metres of stone that were raised from the ground, to release the land from those stones which were then used to build the vineyards walls – these blinded-eyed and porous-backed walls, where the loose stones fit perfectly as if they were the different pieces of a puzzle.

In, Açores – O segredo das Ilhas, João de Melo