Poças is one of the few Port wine companies that is exclusively Portuguese. Founded in 1918, it has remained in the hands of the same family since its foundation. Essential speaks to oenologist [...]

  An office park near Lisbon that was ground-breaking at the time it was conceived 30 years ago, celebrated its 30th anniversary last week. Quinta da Fonte – in Paço de Arcos in Oeiras [...]

Just before midnight on December 31, 2021, the European Commission published a proposal that paved the way to investments in gas and nuclear energy being considered ‘environmentally sustainable’. [...]

Since moving to Portugal a little over four years ago Texas-born entrepreneur Anne Brightman has opened one of the most innovative new luxury estate agencies in Greater Lisbon and is raising the [...]

A Portuguese winery in the Alentejo region of the country has tried something it believes might be a first…in Portugal at least. Casa Relvas, based at São Miguel de Machede, in Redondo, a family [...]

Portugal’s presidency of the European Council got off to an uncertain start. The transition period for Brexit ended on January 1, and Portugal and Europe were plunged into a second lockdown, but [...]

William Murray ‘Trip’ Hawkins III is a genius. He has been behind some of the most pioneering developments in computer games in history. A colleague and contemporary of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, [...]

When it was launched in 1995, Quinta da Fonte was one of the first office parks to understand the need to connect both high-quality real estate and its ‘countryside’ surroundings. Today, under [...]

The President of the Algarve Tourism Association, João Fernandes, says he has “moderate expectations” for a return to some kind of normality by Easter. In an interview with the online business [...]

Isaltino Morais, the Mayor of Oeiras, is a charismatic man, whose larger-than-life presence seems to fill the room, a room dominated by an enormous painting of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião [...]