About Us

ProDouro – Associação dos Viticultores Profissionais do Douro is a non-profit association, created in 2015 with the purpose of giving a voice to professional winegrowers in the defence of quality values and the enhancement of properties and their productions.

The Association focuses on relevant issues for viticulture in the region that, for some reason, have never been addressed with an in-depth technical vision and in an institutional manner, with the aim of filling gaps in the associative environment of the Douro Region. Its actions are based on the efficiency of resources and the complementarity of ideas for the Region, without occupying or overlapping the space of action of already existing entities.

Its aim is to analyse those issues and embrace them as “ProDouro causes” with total pragmatism and technical accuracy, providing solutions and drawing up proposals that may be disseminated among its Members.

It does not intend to be an Association with a verticalized action and with a vocation to implement solutions on the ground. It does intend to promote the merit of the solutions to the competent bodies and stimulate them to implement them for the good of the Region.

Its mission is to disseminate in the Region the result of our reflections and corresponding solutions, in the expectation that they will be adopted collectively.

It is an Association that lives off the technical and intellectual resources of its Members, who are the main contributors to the choice of themes and also the main users of the solutions found.

It is not, nor does it want to be, just another association that weighs on the accounts of its associates and feeds structures of questionable usefulness. It aims to be the voice of the professional farmers and a movement leading to the valorisation of the grape and wine of the Douro region.

It is our mission to unite all voices, gaining a bigger, louder voice with more negotiating power.

The Board of Directors:

President

Rui Soares                                        Esmero Sociedade de Vinhos

Members

João Pissarra                                   Soeiro de Carvalho  

Pedro Silva Reis                               Real Companhia Velha

António Magalhães                         The Fladgate Partnership

Luísa Borges                                    Vieira de Sousa Vines and Wines, Lda.

Ana Aguilar                                       Quinta das Cabreiras

Olga Martins                                     Lavradores de Feitoria

Mário Monteiro                                 Adega de Favaios

José Nuno Gouveia                         Adega de Sabrosa

Advisory Board:

Abílio Tavares da Silva                    

Ana Mota                                     

António Nazaré Pereira                  

Celeste Marques                         

Celso Pereira                                  

David Guimaraens                         

Emídio Gomes                               

Francisco Tovar                             

Helena Teles                         

João Roda Santos

Jorge Alves                                      

Jorge Moreira

Jorge Queirós                         

Jorge Serôdio Borges                  

Pedro Marçal                                 

Rui Cunha                                   

Rui Paredes                              

Teresa Barbosa                         

Pe. Amadeu Cardoso