Porto hosted the interim meeting of the international network ‘Great Wine Capitals Network’, which announced the winners of the wine tourism awards. With the presence of representatives of the various member cities of that organization and representatives of various institutions of the wine and tourism sector, the “Best of Wine Tourism 2020” awards were presented in various categories.
Caves Santa Marta was a winner in the ‘Art and Culture’ category associated with wine. “It is the recognition of the work of an entire team which for six years has been promoting art through wine,” notes the management of Caves Santa Marta.
There are already several brands of the cooperative of Santa Marta de Penaguião that have wine labels created by painters. This is the case of Sparkling Fonte do Rei with image of the Belgian painter Jean Marie Boomputte; of CSM59 with the image of Brazilian painter Isabelle Ferrão Marques; the Caves Santa Marta Reserve with image of the painter Mafalda Mendonça; of Conde Guião with the image of the painter António Franchini; of the Encostas do Corgo with the image of the painter Manuela Mendes da Silva and Lapadas with image of the Brazilian painter Fernanda Eva.
The Cooperativa Adega de Santa Marta was founded in 1959. The cooperative wineries of Cumieira and Medrões were also created in the municipality. The three wineries joined together in the seventies to merge definitively in 1987 giving rise to the well-known Caves Santa Marta. In 1998, the wine company Caves Santa Marta was the first cooperative to achieve a vintage, Vintage Port 1998. In 2001 it was considered the Best Cooperative Winery of the Year.
