White Periquita 2022

The history of Periquita dates back to the beginning of José Maria da Fonseca's own history, when the company's founder, Mr. José Maria da Fonseca, purchased, around 1840, the Cova da Periquita property. It was on this property, nowadays almost swallowed up by urban development, that José Maria da Fonseca planted the first grapes of the Castelão variety, which he himself had brought from Estremadura. The wine produced in Cova da Periquita soon proved to be the best in the region, leading other owners to ask José Maria da Fonseca for sticks of that variety to plant on their own properties. In this way, the wine became known in Azeitão as the Periquita wine, starting to be marketed by José Maria da Fonseca as Periquita José Maria da Fonseca registered the Periquita brand in 1941. For this reason, Periquita is currently the most old Portuguese brand of table wine sold having acquired, over time, growing popularity in Portugal and considerable notoriety in markets such as Sweden, Brazil, the United States of America, Canada, Denmark and Norway. Periquita Branco was launched for the first time in the 2004 harvest, on the Swedish market and in Brazil in the 2005 harvest. In Portugal this wine was launched with the 2006 harvest.