Quinta Do Vesuvio 2017 750Antnio Bernardo Ferreira bought the property in 1823, at that time called Quinta das Figueiras. He set out to create something magnificent. His transformation of this Quinta was not governed by any short term objectives: it was a life long investment. It took his team of five hundred workers thirteen years to carve vineyards out of the steep slopes and plant thousands of vines. But his visionary modernization efforts transformed the Douro and some