The Portuguese Newbie team visited Paulo Martins. Paulo Martins, is a young chef which, at the age of 37, switch the big cities, restaurants and bars by a small rural village in Alentejo and the kitchen by a distillery. He was responsible of a restaurant kitchen in Portugal capital, Lisbon, and one day, challenged by a friend, decided to turn a dream into reality, so he gave up his work and started his own business producing Portuguese Gin made through a completely handcrafted process. With this friend, they settled in a big farm by a lending contract and transformed an old barn in a distillery space. In this farm, the owner produces wine and Indian figs, and have another person’s, besides Paulo, developing different activities by an agreement. Paulo went to London where he visited some distilleries and knew closely the processes of manufacture of some known Gin´s, did some training and when returned, he designed his own distiller and started to do some experiences. He collects some of the ingredients in nature and do everything by himself. Till now he can’t live only from this business, he have 2 other part-time jobs, but he´s getting in the market with an added value to his product and is preparing to develop work in the agro tourism also, receiving tourists to taste the product and learn the history behind it in the farm. https://www.facebook.com/destilariamontedabica/
