Lavradores de Feitoria, Vinhos de Quinta SA is a unique project, created in September 2000, resulting from the union of 15 farmers, owners of 18 estates distributed across the best terroirs of the Douro Valley, divided among the three sub-regions (Baixo Corgo, Cima Corgo and Douro Superior). Currently, the company's structure comprises 48 shareholders, of which 15 are grape producers, and 19 farms. Together, they total a vineyard area of ​​over 600 hectares.

These producers – with distinct stakes in the company's capital, under a single brand, a single winery, and a single winemaking team – joined forces to share resources and create synergies in order to achieve what they could not achieve alone. For the first time in the Douro, a group of committed Douro natives combined knowledge and experience, innovation and tradition. A joint and supportive effort that marked a new era for the Douro.

Sharing and collaboration, combined in a modern, reasonable and intelligent way, are the underlying values ​​of Lavradores de Feitoria. From the beginning, the goal has been to create balanced, elegant wines with aging potential, based on a declared commitment to the excellence and tradition of the Douro region.

With 19 estates spread throughout the Douro region, Lavradores de Feitoria manages to obtain the best raw material, with grapes of all varieties (even the lesser-known ones), vines of all ages, planted at multiple altitudes, with different exposures, in a huge heterogeneity of soils.

History of the name

The Marquis of Pombal, founder of the Douro Demarcated Region, selected the best wines from this region, destined for the most demanding connoisseurs in the country and the rest of the world. These were the so-called "factory wines" and earned well-deserved respect for their exceptional quality.

At the turn of the century, farmers in the Douro Valley joined together to realize a dream as simple as it was ambitious: to bring together "Farmers" to make "Feitoria" wines. Thus was born Lavradores de Feitoria, which brings together different ancestral and contemporary knowledge and experiences, from viticulture to marketing.