Panceta de Cerdo Ahumada

Deolinda Campelo is the second act of a story that began in 1988, when her mother Aurora Miranda do Rego started a small family business breeding pigs with time and care for the animals and the land, the way her ancestors had done for centuries. The meat was smoked with local oak firewood and curated for months, before being sliced and finally tasted.

Eleven years later, in 1999, Deolinda became the head of Quinta dos Fumeiros and has honoured her mother by transforming her familiar smokehouse into a distinguishable pearl of Portuguese charcuterie.

Still, to this day, flavour is only the second most important thing for Deolinda. Because first, it has always been about people. Deolinda wants her farmers, technicians, family members and neighbours to be happy: she wants to be able to call them “happy people”.

And if happiness has a taste, it is salted with tradition and innovation. Deolinda and her people carry tradition forward by improving processes, creating new recipes and giving historical flavours a new life. Directly from Ponte de Lima to the world.