Global Wines, former Dão Sul, was founded in 1990, in the region of Dão. It was born from our passion for wine and our belief in the enormous potential of the Portuguese wines, their diversity and superior quality. Currently, the company produces six main brands: Cabriz, Casa de Santar and Vinha do Contador (Dão), Quinta do Encontro (Bairrada), Monte da Cal (Alentejo) and Vinha Maria (from several regions) – and it is the mirror of the innovation and determination of its partners over the last three decades.
The desire to show the Portuguese wines to the world led the company, born around wines from Dão, to develop its business in a way that left room for expansion to other regions. Today, Global Wines has wines from the most important wine making regions in the country: Douro, Bairrada, Lisbon, Alentejo and Vinhos Verdes. But we dreamt further, crossed borders and the company started to produce wines in Brazil as well, through a company owned by the group, Vinibrasil. In the region of Vale de São Francisco, in Pernambuco, Global Wines creates wines that combine the unique characteristics of the Portuguese varieties with the semiarid climate of this Brazilian region.
Aware that wine is an experience, Global Wines also owns three wine tourism spaces – Quinta de Cabriz and Paço dos Cunhas de Santar, in Dão; and in Bairrada, Quinta do Encontro. In these wine tourism spaces, our main goal is to open the door to our clients to the enticing world of wine, through guided tours given by specialists and restaurants where the best cuisine enhances the experience of tasting an exceptional wine.
The production of Global Wines’ several wines is built upon the same concept: cellars built from scratch, filled with cutting edge wine making equipment, cellars with room for the barrels, wine storage, laboratory and tasting room. Our company was the first in the Portuguese agri-food sector to implement a Department of Investigation of Technological Development in Companies in 2003.
To present the Portuguese wines to the world, and even to Portugal itself, is Global Wines’ main goal. Committed to the progress and development of the wine making sector in Portugal, our company is built upon R&D, a fundamental part of our evolution and growth. We have several partnerships with institutions within the national and international Science and Technology System, where we aim to further research viticulture, wine production and marketing.
In these last 30 years of work and love for wine, Global Wines has written a unique story within the wine sector in Portugal which is proof of our team’s entrepreneurship, dedication and creativity. In this long history, we gathered offices in Portugal, China and Brazil, almost 400 hectares of vineyard in Portugal, almost 120 hectares in Brazil and almost 7 million bottles of wine produced every year. Currently, Global Wines is focussing on internationalization. With almost one hundred importers and distributors, our company is already present in 40 countries including USA, Germany, Angola, Switzerland, China, France, Brazil and Canada amongst others.
As the largest producer in Dão, Global Wines owns houses that have centuries of history in the wine making business like Casa de Santar (that began in the 18th century) and Paço dos Cunhas (17th century). Because the history of wine is part of our company, but also because this company wants to be part of the history of wine in Portugal.
