Amphora Wine Day 2025 -the rise and rise of clay

“1,900 wine lovers can’t be wrong. In November last year they thronged to the eighth edition of Amphora Wine Day, off the beaten track in Vidigueira, southern Portugal, a good two-hour drive south of Lisbon.

They – and more journalists than ever before – came to the Rocim winery in the village of Cuba to taste wines made by nearly 40 producers, mostly Portuguese but from as far afield as France, Italy, Georgia and Chile. (The photo at the top shows Rocim’s very small talha cellar, adjacent to their main winery.)”