Quinta da Pacheca is expected to triple tourism by 2020

Quinta da Pacheca received more than 68 thousand visitors in 2017. “With a restaurant of recognized quality, led by Chef Carlos Pires, which in 2017 registered growth of about 25 percent, coupled with the excellence of Wine House Hotel, which had an average occupancy rate of over 80 percent last year, Quinta da Pacheca asserts itself as one of the main players in the Douro wine tourism market, “the farm administration said in a press release. Quinta da Pacheca is expected to “more than double its hotel capacity by 2020”, with an investment project underway, based on the construction of a second housing unit with 29 rooms.
Also this year, Maria do Céu Gonçalves and Paulo Pereira, owners of Quinta da Pacheca, will inaugurate 10 original rooms, which they named “Wine Barrels”, a proposal that “will soon become one of the ex-libris not only of Pacheca, but of the entire region of Douro.”
With regard to wines, in 2017, the production of CDO was 676 thousand bottles, while in the case of Port Wine, production reached 290 thousand liters. Compared to 2016, the number of bottling increased by 31 percent. Quinta da Pacheca will soon bring new wines to the market, undertaking a restyling of the labels, starting with the new harvests.