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The estate, Paço de Camões has been passed down over six generations of the Reynolds family. The Reynolds family first came to Portugal as cork merchants in 1820 and have been farming cork in the Alentejo ever since. Paço de Camões now belongs to the Pinsent family, Clare Pinsent inherited the property in 1984 from her father, Victor Reynolds, a pioneering viticulturist in the region. The estate is predominantly a cork forest and some of the oldest trees date back over two hundred years. Paço shares its name with Luis de Camões, Portugal’s most famous poet. Local legend has it that while he was exiled from Lisbon in 1548 he stayed on the property and lent his name to the Monte.