Filipa Pato and William Wouters are a magical wife and husband collaboration.
Our philosophy is simple: create authentic wines without makeup. They express the true nature of the vineyards from which they come.
We focus on indigenous grapes only. Baga, Bical, Arinto, Cercial and Maria Gomes create soulful wines from vineyard sites with soils, microclimates, and other aspects, ideal for growing our exquisite wine grapes with biodynamanic viticultural practices. In the winery, we gently handle the grapes, with minimal intervention and strict monitoring of the wine, allowing our grapes to express themselves fully.
Ultimately we create "terroir" wines by uniting knowledge, art and nature to produce "without makeup", each wine with its own character.
Filipa Pato - winegrower in Bairrada. Graduating from the University of Coimbra as a Chemical Engineer, she refined her Winemaker skills doing harvests in Bordeaux, France - Mendoza, Argentina and Margaret River, Australia, and with her father Luis Pato, the Baga rebel.
William Wouters - chef/sommelier/restaurateur. William comes from a restaurateur family from Antwerp, Belgium. He is a sommelier champion, restaurateur and former head chef of the Belgian national Soccer team in the World Cup in Brazil and the European Cup in France.
Together Filipa & William share all their experiences: the love for food and wine, encounters with great wine growers, sommeliers and wine lovers from all over the world and the magical, inexhaustible culture of the World of wine. Today for Filipa & William, Óis do Bairro is the center of their wine universe. They will be happy to share all their passion for food and wine.
Drink local, eat local and... think global 😉