Wines from cooperative wineries are often seen as lower quality wines by many consumers, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Cooperative wineries play a crucial role in wine production in Portugal, bringing together small and medium-sized producers in a much more efficient model of co-operation and shared management, guaranteeing these producers conditions that would be difficult to achieve otherwise, and gaining exposure in international markets that, if they worked alone, would be very difficult to achieve.
Adega de Vila Real, in the heart of the Douro wine region, is a fine example of a cooperative winery that produces wines of enormous quality at low prices. The reserve white and red ranges, for just 4.38 euros (plus VAT), express the genuine character of the Douro. Complex, gastronomic wines that a wine of this price can rarely provide.
If you're a Vinho Verde fan, you really must get to know Vercoope's wines. A union of seven wine cooperatives in the Vinho Verde region, it brings together the production of 4,000 winegrowers. The quality of the wines is recognised and proven by consumers, sales and hundreds of awards won in wine competitions and the specialised press. Vercoope produces 8 million bottles of Vinho Verde every year.
Further south in Portugal, Adega Cooperativa de Redondo is already one of the largest wine producers in the Alentejo region, with around two hundred producers, and is a rare success story on the national wine scene. Adega de Redondo wines are on discount on our website. A good opportunity to get to know them.
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