Caves Santa Marta, CRL - is a company with nearly five decades of history, located in the municipality of Santa Marta de Penaguião, right in the heart of the Douro Region.
This Douro municipality, "Terras de Penaguião" was one of the first to belong to the first Pombaline demarcation, ordered by the royal charter of 1756, for the fine wines of Feitoria.
Two centuries later ... a group of winegrowers unhappy with the reality of regional viticulture, and because they believed that the cooperative would be the best way to promote the main product of its activities - the wine, founded the Adega Cooperativa de Santa Marta in 1959.
The following year, are also created in the county cooperative wineries Cumieira and Medrões. In the seventies the three wineries join commercially to finally merge in 1987, giving rise to the known Caves Santa Marta.
So were the conditions so that this company could grow and reach a high level in the quality of its wines, what has occurred.
In 1998, the winery business Caves Santa Marta, was the first cooperative to get a vintage, the 1998 Vintage Port.
In 2001 it was considered the Best Cooperative Winery of the Year.
Location: Santa Marta de Penaguião
This Douro municipality, "Terras de Penaguião" was one of the first to belong to the first Pombaline demarcation, ordered by the royal charter of 1756, for the fine wines of Feitoria.
Two centuries later ... a group of winegrowers unhappy with the reality of regional viticulture, and because they believed that the cooperative would be the best way to promote the main product of its activities - the wine, founded the Adega Cooperativa de Santa Marta in 1959.
The following year, are also created in the county cooperative wineries Cumieira and Medrões. In the seventies the three wineries join commercially to finally merge in 1987, giving rise to the known Caves Santa Marta.
So were the conditions so that this company could grow and reach a high level in the quality of its wines, what has occurred.
In 1998, the winery business Caves Santa Marta, was the first cooperative to get a vintage, the 1998 Vintage Port.
In 2001 it was considered the Best Cooperative Winery of the Year.
Location: Santa Marta de Penaguião
