Throughout its 150-year history, Rozes has been French-owned. The Rozes winery was founded in 1855 by Ostendo Rozes, who worked for years in Bordeaux as a wine seller. Ostendo’s son Edmond Rozes continued production and made it an international brand. Today, it is owned by Vranken Pommery, a company better known…
Dow’s Winery dates back to 1798 and is one of the few producers of port wine with a purely Portuguese background. Through various mergers, Dow’s has grown into a big player and is world famous especially in vintage port wines. Dow’s Finest Reserve is a ruby-style port wine. Its production begins…
Kopke is the oldest port wine maker, founded as early as 1638, before port wines still existed as a concept. Kopke is the market leader in Tawny Colheita and white port wines. Today, Kopke is part of the Sogevinus Group, the fifth largest port wine producer. The white grapes are peeled,…
Antonio Alves Calem founded a winery of his own name in the city of Porto in 1859. Calem quickly grew fastly in focusing wine exports to Brazil, a new market in the world. Today, Calem is a big player, whose products can also be found extensively in supermarkets in the Baltic…
The Sandeman Winery was founded as early as 1790, by George Sandeman. Sandeman specializes in the import and manufacture of port wines and sherries and has remained on that path to this day. Today, it is one of the largest producers of port and sherry. Sandeman Tawny is made using the…
Porto Cruz is one of the largest producers of port wines. Their products are sold in more than 50 countries. In the largest years, the company was maturing millions of liters of port wine. Every year, the company sells nearly 10 million bottles. Gran Cruz Winery was founded in 1887. Today…
The history of the Dow’s winery dates back to 1798, when the Portuguese merchant Bruno da Silva left to England to sell products from his own area. This was very unusual at the time, when rather English merchants left for Portugal to buy wine and set up vineyards there. Dow’s is…
Sandeman winehouse was established at London in 1790 by young scotchman George Sandeman. Sandeman specializes in port and sherry wines already at the beginning and have kept it’s way until these days. The Sandeman trademark was registered already in 1870 and it is one of the oldest trademarks. The Golden age…
The Real Companhia Velha was established already at 1756 at city of Porto. It is known also as Royal Oporto Wine Company, as it was built by Dom Jose I, king of Portugal. As having a long and political history, it’s oldest port wine house in Portugal and one of the…
Porto Calem was founded by Antonio Alves Calem at 1859. Antonio started to export the wines to Brazil, which was the new market for port wines. Usually them were exported to UK and other European markets. Opening a new market proved to be successful so Porto Calem was quickly able to…