Wine

Portugal’s largest wine producer, Sogrape, which produces Mateus wines, is to invest “several millions” in viticulture at its 450 hectare Herdade do Peso estate — which represents 10% of its [...]

Portuguese wine producer Adega Mayor has seen its turnover increase 10% in 2021 to €5.6 million. In an interview with Lusa, the wine producer’s CEO, Rita Nabeiro said that the company would [...]

A combination of extreme drought and the heat wave could seriously affect wine production in Portugal. In the Upper Douro grapes are already showing signs of stress because of a lack of water and [...]

Portuguese wines will take around 50 years to achieve the same kind of international reputation that Italian wines have. This is according to Rupert Symington, leader of the Symington Group which [...]

ViniPortugal, an organisation which has been promoting Portuguese wines overseas for 25 years, is to boost its investment in the US market where it expects sales to grow by two digits in 2022. [...]

The price of wine is about to go up because of the soaring production costs. The rising costs of glass, pesticides, fertilisers, corks, labels, pallets, cardboard boxes and shipping containers, [...]

Trade between Portugal and Russia is not particularly expressive. Nevertheless, it has been growing over the past five years, particularly in terms of wines, and specifically light naturally [...]

Portuguese wine companies which export to the Russian and Ukraine markets are apprehensive over the situation between the Ukraine and Russia. Western sanctions and the ongoing war in the Ukraine [...]

A group of shareholders of Ímpar Wines has bought the Alentejo wine estate Herdade das Antas. The shareholders are Pedro Paixão, Michael Ullmann, Gareth Pearce, Andy Phillips, and Helga Kronheim. [...]

The Portuguese cork giant Corticeira Amorim has acquired 50% of the Italian Turin-based company Saci for €49 million. Saci’s main production product are wirehoods which are used on bottles of [...]