It is with great honor that the Municipality of Mêda joins the Beira Interior Wine Route. The connection of the Mêda lands to the vineyard and wine is secular, and there is evidence in the municipality that this importance dates back at least to Roman times, given the existence of archaeological remains in the county that prove the cultivation of the vineyard. Examples are the “Painel de Baco” found in the archaeological site of Vale do Mouro, in the parish of Coriscada, and the caterpillars excavated in the rock that proliferated in dozens of strategic places where even today they produce the best wines from the Douro and the Beira Interior. Vine cultivation and wine production are deeply rooted in local history and culture, arguments for the identity and differentiation of our territory. Here, “Where the Douro Meets the Mountain”, we have the ideal “terroir” for the production of superior quality wines, in schist and granite soils, with altitudes ranging from 300 to 800 m, where diversity and quality go holding hands. Part of the municipality is located in the Douro Demarcated Region, in the Douro Superior Sub-region, and the rest in the Beira Interior Wine Region. Viticulture in the municipality of Mêda is one of the economic activities that most contributes to the local economy. Adega Cooperativa da Mêda, founded on December 19, 1956, remains very important for winegrowers in the municipality, particularly for small winegrowers. We also have several bottling producers, with the designations of wines originating "Beira Interior", "Douro" and "Porto", which produce wines of excellent quality. Some of them are on the list of the most respected wines in the country. Fernando Nicolau de Almeida came here in search of the best raw material to produce the famous Barca Velha wine and here he found some of the vineyards that he considered “perfect vines”. Many still remember the famous “Palhete da Mêda”, a wine well known in Portuguese society from the 50s and 60s of the last century. Today, production has modernized. Bottling producers are committed to constant technological innovation, but they are still repositories of this unique heritage context, where the past is celebrated, the present is lived and the future of vine, wine and wine tourism is projected. The range of wines produced in our municipality consists of more than fifty references, covering whites, reds, sparkling wines and Port Wine. Wine production assumes itself as an economic sector of high importance for local development, contributing notably to the volume of exports in our territory, being an important generator of employment. We are certain that the Beira Interior Wine Route, consisting of itineraries centered on the theme of wine, properly signaled and promoted, will motivate tourists to visit Beira Interior, thus contributing to the consistent enhancement of local and regional heritage, constituting itself as a tourist product of regional quality and authenticity, through the dissemination of handicrafts, the landscape, architectural, museological and gastronomic heritage of our territories.