This stony wasteland located in northern Portugal was immortalised by the great writer Aquilino Ribeiro, who wrote the novel with the same name.
He called it this not because it is a sinful land, but because life there is harsh, poor, punished by the natural environment, burdened by heat, because it is rare for land to require such a struggle to exist.
But the vines demand little and are able to produce fresh and aromatic grapes in the midst of such great adversity.