Baga Friends
This is a new association of Bairrada producers with one thing in common: they are passionate about the Baga grape. Baga is a variety that is grown throughout central Portugal but its purest expression is on the clay soils of Bairrada where it is by far the most dominant grape. In my book The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal (published in 2003) I say that Bairrada produces ‘the best and worst of wines’. There is still some truth in this.