The Buyer | Justin Keay on the inexorable rise of Portugals Tejo wine region

Tejo is a Portuguese wine region that is only just beginning to show what it is truly capable of, and yet it still has enormous, untapped potential. Young, well-travelled, imaginative producers are no longer selling fruit to the large coops but instead making stylish, fresh, modern wines from indigenous grapes on often very old vines – some 90-100 years old. Justin Keay hears from Dirceu Vianna Junior MW about the exciting new Serras sub-region and the part that terroir and climate generally plays in Tejo; talks to Luis de Castro, head of the region’s trade body; then picks out a ‘magnificent seven’ wine producers whose wines are particularly worth checking out.