Quinta do Vale da Ermida was born in 2008, result of a dream of young entrepreneurs who found in the wonderful region of Alto Douro Wine Region – classified by UNESCO in 2001 as Heritage of Humanity, and which landscape is the result of nature’s charms and men’s effort and imagination in its transformation – the perfect terroir for a wine tourism project. Located in the Corgo’s river margins, half way between Régua and Vila Real, and inside the perimeter around the vineyards that in 1756 Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo - The Marquês de Pombal - was carefully demarcated by 335 large rectangular, flat, or semi-circular granite markers – called Feitoria as the place with the highest quality wine, the only that could be exported to England, commonly known as “Port Wine” from what was the first demarcated and regulated wine region in the world.