DONA OTÍLIA

• Category: Manufacture of wines, manufacture of cider and other fruit wines
• Region: Douro
• Spoken Languages: English
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Company description

Dona Otília is a company born in 2015 as the fruit of the will and passion of its owner: Otília Timóteo. Bind to vine culture and wine growing since her birth, with this project she intends to carry on with the production of Douro and port wines that her parents started in 1980. Her father, fell in love, married and settled in the district of Santa Marta where, in 1980, he purchased the first farm (quinta) . Dedicated mainly to the production and marketing of table wine. Following her college education away from home and her businesses in other sectors of activities, Otília embraced in 2010 the challenge of the family business. She initiated the process of exporting wine to Brazil and Angola thus creating her first company in this sector — the Timoteo’s Vinhos Lda — to continue the family businesses and open the door to other markets. Throughout the years, the company has increased its area production; has modernised a few vineyards; has planted news castes and has mechanised the irrigation system. Consequently, major improvements occurred in the varieties produced regarding the quality of its wines. At present, it possesses three quintas in the sub region of the low Corgo, totalling an area production of 40 hectares, all A-lettered (top classification) to produce port wine, recognised by the IVDP. It also owns a cellar planned to be expanded and modernised before 2020. In 2015, Otília Timóteo — aware of the needs required by the international market and in touch with the trends — decided to take on a project of her own, upon which she bestowed her name and personal stamp, being exclusively devoted to the production of DOC and high-quality port wines thus marketing the brand DonaOtília e Quero.te (“I Want You” in English). The strategy of Dona Otilía (Ltd.) is committed to the highest standards of ethical business based on a long-time view, solidified by the high quality of its wines, brands innovation and a rigorous presentation of products...