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Azores Wines
The planting of vineyards and the making of wine was first introduced in the 15th Century by the Portuguese settlers from the mainland. It is said that vines were originally imported to meet their needs for the celebration of mass rather than for more personal reasons!

It was not long before production was sufficiently good that the two Islands, Pico and Terceira were exporting a fortified wine well into the 19th Century. The disease of odium and phylloxera from Europe somehow penetrated the vineyards and wiped out the complete wine production.

The Island of Graciosa now makes a light wine and there are now three regulated regions which are Pico, Biscoito (Island of Terceira), and Graciosa. The wine produced tends to be thin and acid and mainly consumed within the group of Islands.




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