Red and white wines from Alcobaça known wine connoisseurs and gourmets. The town has a wine museum, which was created at the end of the twentieth century under the patronage of the Portuguese Institute of wine growing and winemaking.

The museum itself is located about 1, 2 km from Alcobaça and is located in a former winery. The wine collection consists of about ten thousand copies in all of Portugal. Among the collection is even a wine 50 years of aging. In the museum you can visit the room warehouse, which was used to store agricultural tools, wine cellars and taverns where you can sample regional wines.

The building is an old winery was built in 1875 by well-known major wine producer at the time - Jose Eduardo Raposo de Magalshaes to develop the wine industry in the region. Jose Eduardo Raposo de Magalshaes - Portuguese engineer. After the proclamation of the Republic of Portugal, he was appointed Governor of Leiria.

Portugal is very famous for its wine. The tradition of wine-making country date back to the VI century BC. That's when the Portuguese settled on the lands of the Phoenicians and brought a variety of grapes. Today there are more than forty wine-growing regions in which high-quality world-class wines. It is worth noting that the wines of Portugal are among the best in the world because of their exclusive and special taste. The most famous brand - port and Madeira. It is known that many winemakers and now squeeze the juice from the grapes underfoot, as was done in the old days, but instead used props trees, planting grapes there.