How to Say Wine in Portuguese

Quick answer: wine in Portuguese is "vinho"

If you're in a hurry, here's the short version. The Portuguese word for wine is "vinho." It's pronounced roughly "veen-yoo," and it's spelled and used the same way whether you're in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, or Luanda. That's one small mercy in a language that otherwise loves to change things between Brazil and Portugal.

You'll see "vinho" confirmed as the direct translation of wine in every serious reference source, from the Cambridge Dictionary to PONS to Wiktionary. If you plug the word into Linguee, you'll find hundreds of real bilingual examples showing "vinho" used exactly the way you'd expect, in menus, in recipes, in casual conversation. There's no trick here and no regional swap the way there sometimes is with, say, bus or bathroom vocabulary. One word, two countries, same spelling.

But knowing the word isn't the same as being able to say it with confidence at a dinner table, or order a glass without the waiter squinting at you. That's what the rest of this guide is for. We'll cover pronunciation, grammar, the wild variety of Portuguese wine styles, how to order and toast properly, and the cultural gap between how Portugal and Brazil actually drink. By the end you'll know more about "vinho" than most tourists learn in a week of wine tasting.

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How do you pronounce "vinho"?

This is where most English speakers trip up, and it's worth slowing down for. Say the word "vinho" out loud right now, the way an English speaker instinctively would. You probably said something like "VIN-ho," with a hard "n" and a clear "h" sound. That's not quite it, and the gap between what you said and what a Portuguese speaker says is exactly one letter combination: "nh."

In Portuguese, "nh" is a digraph, meaning two letters that together make one single sound. It's not "n" plus "h." It's a palatal nasal consonant, which is a fancy way of saying the sound comes from pressing the middle of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth while air passes through your nose. If you speak any Spanish, you already know this sound, it's the same as the Spanish "ñ" in "año" or "señor." In English, the closest match is the "ny" sound in the middle of "canyon" or "onion." Say "canyon" slowly and isolate that "ny" sound in the middle. That's your "nh."

So "vinho" breaks down like this: "VEEN" plus that "ny" sound plus "oo." Linguists write it in IPA as roughly [ˈviɲu], with the little "ɲ" symbol representing that palatal nasal. Speechling's pronunciation guide walks through the same breakdown with audio, which is worth a listen if you want to hear a native speaker say it slowly a few times.

Here's the catch: European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese don't pronounce it identically, even though they spell it the same. In Brazil, vowels before "nh" tend to get nasalized, so "vinho" comes out closer to [ˈvĩ.ɲu], with that little tilde over the "i" signaling the vowel gets pushed partly through the nose, almost like a light hum riding underneath the vowel. In continental Portugal, the standard pronunciation is [ˈvi.ɲu], a touch cleaner and less nasal on that first vowel. And if you travel to the north of Portugal, around Porto and the Minho region (fittingly, since that's where a lot of the wine comes from), you'll sometimes hear locals shift the "v" sound toward a "b," so "vinho" can come out sounding closer to "binho." That b/v shift is a well documented regional quirk of northern Portuguese accents, not a mistake, just a different flavor of the same language.

None of these differences will get you misunderstood. Order a "vinho" with an American "VIN-ho" and people will still know what you want. But nailing that "nh" palatal sound is the single biggest lever you can pull to sound less like a tourist reading off a menu and more like someone who's actually spent time with the language. It's the same skill you'd use to nail the "nh" in words like "banho" (bath) or the soft consonants in greetings like "olá" or a warm obrigado at the end of a meal. Small sounds, big difference in how natural you come across.

The most common mistake English speakers make isn't actually the "nh," though, it's stress. English speakers often want to stress the first syllable hard, like "VIN-yo," when Portuguese naturally puts a slightly more even, softer weight across the word. Practicing it slowly, syllable by syllable, "vi... nho," and then speeding it up, tends to fix this faster than reading about it ever will.

Is "vinho" masculine or feminine?

Portuguese nouns all carry a grammatical gender, and "vinho" is masculine. You'll always see it paired with "o," the masculine definite article, as in "o vinho" (the wine), never "a vinho." This isn't arbitrary trivia, it matters because every adjective, article, and pronoun that touches the word "vinho" has to agree with that masculine gender.

The good news is that "vinho" is a textbook example of the most predictable gender pattern in the language. Nouns ending in "-o" are masculine the overwhelming majority of the time, and nouns ending in "-a" are usually feminine. Practice Portuguese has a solid breakdown of these gender patterns if you want the fuller picture, including the exceptions that trip people up (like "a mão," hand, which ends in "o" but is feminine). "Vinho" isn't one of the exceptions. It plays by the rules.

The plural of "vinho" is "vinhos," following the standard rule of adding an "s" to pluralize. "Os vinhos" means "the wines," and you'll see that plural form constantly on restaurant wine lists, in phrases like "a carta de vinhos" (the wine list) or when someone's describing a wine region's "vinhos" as a category, like "os vinhos do Douro" (the wines of the Douro).

Once you have "o vinho" and "os vinhos" down, you can build almost any sentence you need. "Este vinho é bom" (this wine is good). "Gosto deste vinho" (I like this wine). "Qual é o seu vinho favorito?" (what's your favorite wine?). The grammar stays simple as long as you remember: masculine, ends in "-o," pluralizes with "-s."

Types of wine in Portuguese

Before you can order confidently, you need the basic categories. Portuguese, like most Romance languages, describes wine by color and style using adjectives that follow "vinho." Here's the core vocabulary you'll actually use.

Notice that "tinto" doesn't mean "red" on its own, it's specifically the word used for red wine's color, distinct from "vermelho," the general word for red you'd use to describe a red shirt or a red car. That's a subtle distinction, but it's the kind of thing that marks the difference between a beginner and someone who's actually spent time reading Portuguese wine labels. You can confirm the exact phrase "vinho tinto" and its usage on Wiktionary's dedicated entry, which lists it as a set compound term rather than just two words stuck together.

"Branco" is more straightforward, it's the standard word for the color white, no wine-specific twist required. And "rosé" versus "rosado" is mostly a matter of regional habit and a bit of prestige borrowing from French, since rosé wine has long carried a French cachet. Devour Tours has a good rundown of Portuguese rosé specifically, including how it's made and where it's grown, if you want to go deeper on that particular style.

Vinho verde: what does "green wine" actually mean?

This is the phrase that confuses almost everyone the first time they hear it. "Vinho verde" translates literally to "green wine," and no, it does not mean the wine is green in color, and no, it's not made from unripe grapes in some failed harvest.

There are two layered meanings packed into that name, and both are true at once. First, "verde" refers to the wine being young. In Portugal, "verde" can describe anything unripe or freshly picked, the way English speakers might call an inexperienced person "green." Vinho verde is typically bottled and sold just three to six months after harvest, making it one of the youngest wine styles you'll find anywhere in Europe. Second, "verde" also nods to the region it comes from, the lush, intensely green Minho area in the far north of Portugal, a landscape of rolling hills and vineyards that stays green almost year round thanks to heavy Atlantic rainfall.

Wikipedia's entry on Vinho Verde lays out both explanations and traces the wine's protected designation of origin status, which restricts the name to wines actually produced in that northern region. We Travel Portugal has a more casual, accessible breakdown of what Vinho Verde is if you want a gentler entry point before the Wikipedia deep dive.

Most vinho verde you'll encounter is white, light bodied, low in alcohol, and famous for a slight natural fizz, a gentle prickle on the tongue that comes from a bit of residual carbon dioxide left in the bottle. It's the kind of wine that practically begs to be drunk on a hot afternoon, chilled, with grilled sardines or fresh seafood. But the vinho verde category also includes red and rosé versions, both less exported and less known outside Portugal, but very much part of daily drinking culture in the Minho region itself.

If someone asks whether "green" wine is a gimmick or a real category, you can tell them it's both a young style and a place name in one, and that either explanation alone would be incomplete.

Port wine: the fortified wine with a history lesson baked in

Port wine, "vinho do Porto" in Portuguese, is probably the most famous Portuguese wine export in the world, and it comes with a backstory dense enough to fill a documentary.

Port is a fortified wine, meaning brandy (a distilled spirit) gets added partway through fermentation. That addition does two things: it stops the fermentation before all the sugar converts to alcohol, which is why Port tends to taste noticeably sweet, and it raises the alcohol content, typically to somewhere around 19 to 22 percent, well above a standard table wine's 12 to 14 percent.

The history behind why Port exists at all traces back centuries. The Romans planted vines along the Douro river valley in what's now northern Portugal, laying the groundwork for a wine-growing tradition that would eventually become world famous. But the real turning point came in 1703, with the Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal. England and France were frequently at war during this period, which made French wine an unreliable, sometimes outright unpatriotic, import for the English. The Methuen Treaty gave Portuguese wine preferential tariff treatment in England, and English merchants poured into the Douro region to buy it up. Discover Douro's history of Port wine covers this trade relationship in detail, including why English merchant houses still dominate many of the big Port brand names today.

There was a practical problem, though. Wine shipped from Portugal to England on wooden sailing vessels had a habit of spoiling on the long sea crossing. Merchants discovered that adding a splash of brandy to the wine before shipping helped stabilize it and stopped it from turning. That accidental fix became a defining feature of the style rather than a temporary workaround, and Port as we know it today grew directly out of that practical need to survive an ocean voyage.

By the mid 1700s, the Douro's wine trade had become such an economic force, and such a target for fraud and adulteration, that the Portuguese Prime Minister, the Marquis of Pombal, stepped in. In 1756, he established a demarcated, regulated boundary for the Douro wine region, controlling which land could legally produce wine sold as Port and setting quality standards. Historians widely credit this as the world's first officially demarcated and regulated wine region, predating similar systems in France and Italy by well over a century. Cellar Tours has a thorough guide to Port wine's history, styles, and how the industry has modernized since, and Wikipedia's Port wine entry covers the regulatory history and classification system in more technical depth if you want to go further.

Most people picture Port as a thick, sweet, ruby red wine served in a small glass after dinner, and that's a fair generalization for the most common style. But Port actually comes in a wider range than most casual drinkers realize: ruby, tawny (aged in wood for a nuttier, caramel character), vintage (from a single exceptional year, meant for aging), and even white Port, which is dry to semi-dry and increasingly popular as a lighter aperitif, often served with tonic water on a hot afternoon in Porto.

Portuguese wine regions worth knowing

Portugal punches well above its size when it comes to wine diversity, largely because it has such a wide range of climates packed into a small country, from cool, wet Atlantic coastline to dry, sun-baked inland plains. Wine Folly's deep dive into Portuguese wine regions and the official Wines of Portugal glossary are both excellent if you want to go deeper than a blog post can take you, but here's the shortlist worth knowing.

Each of these regions has its own personality, and a wine that reads simply as "tinto" on a menu can taste completely different depending on whether it's from the cooler Dão highlands or the sun-drenched Alentejo. If you ever spot "DOC" or "denominação de origem controlada" on a Portuguese wine label, that's the equivalent of France's "appellation" system, a legal guarantee the wine actually comes from where the label claims.

Wine label vocabulary: reading a Portuguese bottle

Once you get past the region and the color, Portuguese wine labels throw a handful of extra words at you, and knowing them turns a confusing label into a readable one. These aren't words you'll necessarily say out loud at dinner, but you'll see them constantly if you ever browse a wine shop in Lisbon or Porto, or study a bottle before buying it as a gift.

"Quinta" shows up on labels constantly because so much of Portuguese wine, especially in the Douro, is tied to a specific family estate rather than a big anonymous brand. "Colheita" matters most on Port labels, where a single named harvest year can signal a genuinely special, age-worthy bottle rather than a standard blended style. You can look up either word on Wiktionary's entry for "quinta" if you want to confirm the literal, non-wine meaning of the word alongside its use on labels. Learning even three or four of these words will make you noticeably faster at picking a good bottle instead of guessing from the picture on the label.

Sweetness and style vocabulary

Sweetness terms trip up a lot of English speakers, partly because English doesn't have as rich a vocabulary here and partly because "dry" doesn't intuitively sound like the opposite of "sweet" until you've heard it enough times. Here's the core set you need.

The word "doce" is one you'll already recognize if you've had a Portuguese dessert, since it's the same root as "doces," sweets. "Bruto" is a direct borrowing tied closely to sparkling wine terminology internationally, similar to how "brut" functions in French Champagne labeling. Portn Wine's Portuguese wine glossary and City Vino's glossary of Portuguese wine words both cover these sweetness terms alongside dozens of other label vocabulary, useful if you plan to actually shop for Portuguese wine rather than just order it at a table.

One mistake to avoid: don't assume "seco" and "doce" are simple opposites you can swap freely on any bottle. A Port described as "seco" is still noticeably sweeter than a standard dry table wine, since Port's whole style leans sweet by nature. Context matters more than a single vocabulary word ever will.

Ordering wine at a restaurant

Now for the part you'll actually use most: getting a glass or bottle in front of you. Portuguese restaurant culture has a fairly predictable set of phrases, and the biggest thing to understand upfront is the difference in register between two very common verbs.

"Gostaria de" translates to "I would like," and it's the more formal, polished option, similar to saying "I would like" instead of "I want" in English. "Queria," from the verb "querer" (to want), is used in the past tense but functions as a softer, everyday way of asking for something, and it's what you'll hear most often from locals in casual and even semi-formal restaurants. Practice Portuguese has a helpful breakdown of exactly this gostaria versus queria distinction, and it's worth internalizing, because reaching for "queria" will make you sound more like a local and less like a phrasebook tourist.

That word "por favor" is doing a lot of quiet work in every one of those sentences, and if you want the full picture of how "please" functions in Portuguese, including when locals drop it entirely versus when it's expected, this guide on please in Portuguese covers it well and pairs naturally with everything you'll need at a restaurant table.

Two more words worth locking in: "copo" and "taça." Both can mean "glass," but there's a subtle distinction. "Copo" is the general word for a drinking glass of any kind, while "taça" specifically refers to a stemmed glass, the kind you'd use for wine or champagne. In casual speech, plenty of Portuguese and Brazilian speakers use "copo" for wine glasses too, so you won't sound wrong either way, but "taça de vinho" is the more precise term if you want to be exact. You can cross-check both words against Cambridge Dictionary's entries for standard translations of drinkware vocabulary. And "garrafa," bottle, is a word you'll see constantly on any wine list, confirmed simply enough by any standard Portuguese-English dictionary entry covering drink-related vocabulary.

The Sounds of Portuguese has a solid, practical guide focused specifically on ordering drinks in Portugal, and Migaku's restaurant phrases post rounds out the picture with broader dining vocabulary beyond just wine, useful if you're planning a full trip and not just a single dinner. And of course, Practice Portuguese's video on ordering at a restaurant is worth watching once you've got the written phrases down, since hearing the natural rhythm and pacing of a real order matters just as much as memorizing the words.

Don't forget the basics that bookend any interaction like this. Walking in with a warm olá or a boa tarde if it's afternoon, checking in with the waiter using tudo bem, answering sim when they ask if you'd like to see the wine list, and thanking your server properly on the way out before you say goodbye will do more for how you're treated than perfect wine vocabulary ever could on its own.

If you want those restaurant phrases to actually come out smoothly instead of stumbling over them at the table, that's exactly the kind of speaking practice Comigo is designed for. Instead of just reading a phrase list, you say it out loud to Capy and get corrected in real time, so "queria um copo de vinho tinto" turns into muscle memory before you ever need it in front of a waiter.

Toasting: saúde and the art of the Portuguese cheers

Once the wine's poured, you need one more word: "saúde," which literally means "health" and functions exactly like "cheers" in English. You'll hear it shouted, murmured, and said warmly at basically every meal involving alcohol across both Portugal and Brazil.

A slightly more elaborate version is "à sua saúde," meaning "to your health," which works well as a toast directed at a specific person, like a host or someone celebrating a birthday. If you're at a party celebrating someone, this pairs naturally with wishing them a happy birthday before the glasses even come out.

Here's a cultural detail that trips up a lot of visitors: in many Portuguese-speaking settings, toasting isn't the single big "everyone clink glasses at once in the middle of the table" moment that's common in some other cultures. Instead, it's often more personal and deliberate, clinking glasses individually with each person at the table, making eye contact as you do it, rather than one collective clatter. Kaiwa's guide to Portuguese drinking culture and toasting phrases covers this etiquette in more detail, including the old superstition (shared with several European cultures) that failing to make eye contact during a toast brings bad luck, seven years of bad luck or bad luck in bed, depending on who's telling the story.

Saying "saúde" clearly, with a confident, slightly rising tone, does a lot of social work at a table full of new people. It's a small phrase, but it signals you're paying attention and making an effort, the same social currency you'd earn by asking someone how they're doing before the food even arrives. And if the dinner happens to be a romantic one, a quiet eu amo-te said over raised glasses tends to land a lot better than a toast alone ever could.

Brazil versus Portugal: is wine culture actually the same?

Here's where a lot of learners get tripped up by assuming Brazil and Portugal drink the same way just because they speak the same language. They don't, not even close.

In Portugal, wine is close to a daily staple. It's poured casually with lunch, sold cheaply even at high quality, and treated the way some cultures treat bread or coffee, just a normal part of the meal rather than a special occasion drink. Portugal has one of the highest per-capita wine consumption rates in the world, and it shows in how unceremoniously wine gets served there, a house wine in a simple carafe is completely normal at even modest restaurants.

Brazil is a different story entirely. Beer dominates Brazilian drinking culture by a wide margin, alongside cachaça, the sugarcane-based spirit best known internationally as the base of a caipirinha. Wine plays a noticeably smaller role in day-to-day Brazilian life, with one major exception: the far south of the country, particularly Rio Grande do Sul, where cooler climate and Italian and German immigrant winemaking traditions have supported a real domestic wine industry for well over a century.

There's also a historical class dimension worth knowing. Aventura do Brasil's overview of Brazilian alcohol culture explains how cachaça was historically looked down on as a poor person's drink, associated with enslaved and working class populations during Brazil's colonial and imperial periods, while wealthier, more elite Brazilians favored imported European wine as a status symbol. That old class association has softened considerably in modern Brazil, where cachaça and the caipirinha are now celebrated as genuine national symbols rather than something to be embarrassed about, but the historical echo helps explain why wine never became the everyday staple in Brazil that it is in Portugal.

Since Portuguese is spoken across such a wide range of countries and cultures, Wikipedia's overview of the Portuguese language is a useful reminder that "vinho" carries the exact same meaning from Lisbon to São Paulo to Luanda to Maputo, even when the drinking habits built around that word differ wildly by region. The word travels perfectly. The culture around it doesn't always come along for the ride.

Portuguese wine proverbs and idioms

Portuguese, like most languages with a long wine-growing history, has accumulated a handful of proverbs about wine that double as pretty good windows into cultural values. Citador has a whole page dedicated to wine sayings if you want to go further than this shortlist, but here are four worth knowing.

These sayings show up in conversation more than you'd expect, especially the first one, which gets quoted warmly at long dinners among old friends. Dropping one of these into conversation at the right moment, especially "bom vinho não precisa de rolha" when someone's being modest about something genuinely impressive, tends to land well and signals you've actually studied the culture, not just the grammar.

Common mistakes English speakers make

A few patterns show up again and again with English speakers learning this particular corner of vocabulary, so it's worth naming them directly.

The biggest one is the "nh" sound, treating it as two separate letters instead of one palatal nasal consonant. We covered this above, but it bears repeating: practice "vinho" slowly and isolate that "ny" sound the way you would in "canyon," don't just glue an "n" and an "h" together. Rushing this word is what makes it come out as "vin-ho" with a hard "h," which is the single fastest tell that someone learned the word from a page instead of a person.

The second mistake is assuming Brazilian and Portuguese wine culture are interchangeable just because the word "vinho" is identical in both places. As covered above, wine sits at the center of daily life in Portugal, while beer and cachaça dominate in Brazil outside a few specific wine-growing regions. Don't order like a Lisbon local in São Paulo and expect the exact same reaction, and don't be surprised if a Brazilian friend reaches for a cold beer over a glass of red without a second thought.

The third mistake is mixing up "seco" and "doce," particularly when it comes to Port wine, where even the "dry" versions read sweeter than a typical dry table wine. Ordering a "vinho doce" when you actually wanted something crisp and dry can leave you stuck with a whole glass you don't enjoy, so ask, when in doubt, rather than assuming.

The fourth is a grammar slip: some learners, uncertain about Portuguese gender rules, second-guess themselves into saying "a vinho" instead of "o vinho." Trust the "-o" ending rule here, it's reliable, and "vinho" isn't one of the exceptions, unlike some of the odd words that break the pattern.

Finally, stress placement. English speakers often want to hammer the first syllable ("VIN-yo") when the natural Portuguese rhythm across "vi-nho" is softer and more even. This is a small thing, but it's often the single detail that separates "understandable" from "sounds natural," and it's exactly the kind of nuance that's hard to fix by reading alone. It takes hearing the word, and saying it back, over and over, before it settles into place.

Sample conversations

Seeing these phrases inside real, short exchanges makes them stick better than a vocabulary list alone ever could. Here are three quick dialogues covering different settings.

Casual, with a friend at home

Ordering at a restaurant

A toast at a dinner

Notice how naturally "saúde" fits into these exchanges, and how "queria" rather than "gostaria" shows up in the more casual restaurant order, exactly the register distinction covered earlier.

Frequently asked questions

Is "vinho" the same word in Brazil and Portugal?

Yes, completely. Spelling, meaning, and grammar all stay identical, the only difference is pronunciation, with Brazilian Portuguese nasalizing the vowel slightly more than European Portuguese does.

How do you pronounce vinho?

Roughly "veen-yoo," with the tricky part being the "nh," a single palatal nasal sound similar to the Spanish "ñ" or the "ny" in the English word "canyon." In IPA, it's written approximately [ˈviɲu].

What is vinho verde?

It's a young, light wine style from northern Portugal's Minho region, typically bottled just three to six months after harvest and known for a slight natural fizz. The name means "green wine," referring both to the wine's youth and to the lush green region it comes from.

Is Port wine the same as regular wine?

No. Port, or "vinho do Porto," is a fortified wine, meaning brandy gets added during fermentation, which stops the fermentation early and raises the alcohol content, typically to around 19 to 22 percent. That's why Port usually tastes sweeter and stronger than a standard table wine.

How do you order wine in a restaurant in Portuguese?

The most natural everyday phrase is "queria um copo de vinho tinto, por favor" (I'd like a glass of red wine, please) or "queria uma garrafa de vinho branco" for a bottle of white. "Gostaria de" works too and sounds slightly more formal.

What do you say to toast in Portuguese?

"Saúde," meaning health, is the standard cheers. For a more personal toast directed at someone, try "à sua saúde" (to your health).

Is wine popular in Brazil?

Less so than in Portugal. Beer and cachaça dominate Brazilian drinking culture overall, though wine has a genuine stronghold in the cooler south of the country, especially Rio Grande do Sul, where a real domestic wine industry has grown for over a century.

What's the difference between tinto and branco?

"Tinto" means red wine and "branco" means white wine. "Tinto" specifically describes wine's color rather than functioning as the general Portuguese word for red, which is "vermelho."

Is vinho masculine or feminine?

Masculine. It follows the standard pattern of nouns ending in "-o," so you'll always see it as "o vinho," never "a vinho," and it pluralizes to "os vinhos."

What does "seco" mean on a wine label?

"Seco" means dry, indicating little to no residual sugar. Its opposite is "doce," sweet, with "meio seco" (semi-dry) sitting in between and "bruto" reserved specifically for very dry sparkling wines.

What's the difference between "copo" and "taça"?

"Copo" is the general word for any drinking glass, while "taça" refers specifically to a stemmed glass, the kind used for wine or champagne. Either one gets you understood at a restaurant, but "taça de vinho" is the more precise, correct term if you want to sound exact.

Is vinho verde always white?

No, though white is by far the most common and most exported style. Vinho verde also comes in red and rosé versions, both mostly consumed locally within the Minho region rather than shipped abroad, and both worth trying if you're actually visiting northern Portugal.

Practice it out loud, not just on paper

Reading through pronunciation guides and vocabulary tables gets you halfway there, but wine words like "vinho," restaurant phrases like "queria um copo," and a warm "saúde" at the right moment all live in your mouth, not just your memory. The only way to actually own that "nh" sound, or to say "queria uma garrafa de vinho tinto, por favor" without hesitating, is to say it out loud, again and again, until it stops feeling foreign.

That's the whole premise behind Comigo. Instead of silently memorizing lists like this one, you speak directly to Capy, a capybara companion who listens and gives you instant, word-by-word feedback on your pronunciation, alongside games and friend features that keep practice feeling less like homework. Next time you're staring down a Portuguese wine list, you won't just recognize "vinho tinto," you'll be able to say it with the kind of confidence that actually gets you the glass you wanted. Saúde.