For a long time he was a supplier to the well-known and prestigious companies Casa Ferreirinha and Sociedade dos Vinhos Borges. But the problems that affected the sector in the late 1980s, which resulted in an exaggerated increase in production costs, and in particular the catastrophic harvest of 1988, led him to question the profitability of his farms. the turning point. Like many other Douro winegrowers, affected by the recession in which the Demarcated Region was struggling, he turned to valuing the "leftovers" of Port Wine, that is, the Douro pasture wine, until then traditionally subordinated in relation to fortified wine.
Contains sulfites.