When Mr. Dário decided to continue his father's art, he didn't just want it to bear fruit. Previous generations had taken care of that, marketing the local production of sour cherries, famous for their unparalleled quality, to supply the most renowned liqueur makers in Lisbon and Alcobaça. 

He wanted to turn them into a noble product, far above average, without the unnecessary additions and frivolities typical of the time, that time when artificial colorings were an added value, proudly displayed in a golden seal on everything that was labeled. It was the knowledge inherited through oral tradition. It was a fierce passion for the land and everything that surrounds it in an embrace. It was the desire to see a very distinctive culture reflected in the purplish tones of the best sour cherry liqueur. An entire West fits on this ridge overlooking the Óbidos Lagoon. And it tastes like the Portugal of other times. Oppidum was born, with all due humility, in 1987. It didn't grow out of a desire for grandeur, but rather out of the refinement of the palate of a public whose demands are growing in line with an increasingly vast offer. But where uniqueness wanes. That will always be Oppidum's emblem. The best of the best. It's not gold. It's crimson.