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Tiago Sampaio is the young winegrower and winemaker at Folias de Baco, the project he founded in 2007. However, as the grandson of winegrowers in the Douro, we can say that it all started in his childhood. It was on his grandfather’s piggyback ride that he had his first contact with agriculture and the world of wine, learning to know a craft that was born from pure curiosity and child’s play.
It was this incurable fascination that led him to study agriculture in Santo Tirso, continuing five years of university studies in Vila Real. Completing the agricultural engineering course opened the doors to the doctoral studies that followed, in Oregon, in Viticulture and Enology. It was there that Tiago learned the most modern philosophies of wine production, without ever forgetting his roots on the cooler slopes of the Douro Valley, returning to start his own project with the ancient vineyards belonging to his family.
Since then, he has been dreaming bigger and bigger, pushing the limits of his curiosity and developing his work in the area of ​​sustainable viticulture and the production of natural wines. It is from this meeting between the winemaking traditions of the Douro – one of the oldest demarcated wine regions in the world, a naturally preserved land, with wild landscapes, sculpted by a temperamental river and the hard work of men – and its studies and research, that is born an irreverent and unique range of white, red, sparkling and sweet wines.