How portuguese celebrate St. Martin's day

On this day a large party is held. A bonfire is built, people dance and sing around it and roast the recently-harvested chestnuts and drink a local light alcoholic beverage called “água-pé” - (literally “foot-water”) or the “jeropiga”, a sweet liquor. Traditionally is also the first day when the first wines of the season, called the new wines, can be tasted. This is celebration festival is known as a magusto (believed to come from the Latin magnus ustus or “great fire”).

“It is St. Martin's Day. We’ll eat chestnuts; we’ll taste the wine.”