The ‘Moscatel de Setúbal 10 Years’ and the ‘Adega de Palmela Moscatel 2015’ were awarded in a competition in Italy, with a Great Gold Medal and a Gold Medal, respectively.
The competition was attended by 84 international commissioners from China, France, South Korea, Portugal, Spain, Germany, among others, who evaluated several wines, the cooperative of Palmela stated in a press release.
Adega de Palmela presented, however, at Casa da Baía, in Setúbal, the new range of ‘Vitória’ wines, consisting of Red, White and Moscatel wines in partnership with Vitória Futebol Clube.
“The launch of the new range of wines is part of the new communication policy of Vitoria Futebol Clube, which aims to bring the forces of the city of Setúbal closer together by choosing Adega de Palmela as a partner in this new strategy”, Adega de Palmela stated in a press release.
Founded in 1955 with the name Adega Cooperativa da Região do Moscatel de Setúbal, Adega de Palmela began its activity in 1958. It is one of the main centers of development of the municipality that is markedly agricultural and where the vineyard and the wine have a fairly large importance in the economy.
Adega Cooperativa de Palmela started its activity with 50 members and with a production that did not exceed 1.5 million liters. It currently has 300 members that have a combined area of 1000 hectares. Nowadays, production exceeds 8 million liters, and the wine cellar has the capacity to reach 10 million, with 75% being red wine, 15% white wine and 10% Moscatel de Setúbal wine.
A substantial part of its production is bottled via 5 automatic lines with a capacity of 10,000 bottles/hour.
Adega Cooperativa de Palmela produces the following brands: Pedras Negras (white/red/rosé table wine, liqueur wine, grape marc spirit, aged grape marc), Vale dos Barris (white/red/rosé regional wine from the Setúbal Peninsula), Adega de Palmela (DOC white, red and red Reserve), Adega de Palmela (DOC Fortified Moscatel Wine) and Palma (aged wine spirit).