The Carcavelos comeback: Reinvention on the Tagus

The Carcavelos comeback: Reinvention on the Tagus

There was a time when Carcavelos wine was something of a British household name. At the end of the Georgian era (early-19th century), it was relatively common to find the words “Lisbon” and “Calcavella” engraved on the decorative silver tags designed to identify the wine served from a decanter. Both were fortified wines, the Port of Lisbon briefly competing with Oporto (Porto) for the shipment of wine from their respective hinterlands. “Lisbon” …