Menin Wine Company

Menin Wine Company was born out of a dream: to produce great Douro wines and place them around the world.

The passion for Portugal and the Douro, on the part of Brazilian businessmen Rubens Menin and Cristiano Gomes, goes back a long way. First almost as a second homeland, now as an ideal destination for a unique project that aims to strengthen the historic legacy of the Douro.

Rubens Menin, one of the greatest Brazilian entrepreneurs, with a vast portfolio of businesses, ranging from banking to the largest construction company in Latin America, and Cristiano Gomes, partner and entrepreneur with a career in the financial area, came together to fulfill their passion. And the Douro is just the beginning.

In April 2021 Menin Wine Company acquired the assets of Horta Osório Wines and couldn’t be happier with the challenge of maintaining a legacy as important as the one that was built over the years by the Horta Osório family.

The properties, in some of the best terroirs in the Douro, in a total of 55 hectares, of which 10 are of old vineyards, include Quinta do Pontão, located in the center of the village of Cumieira, and a winery with the most modern winemaking technologies, designed by architects Frederico Valsassina and João Horta Osório Charters Monteiro. Integrated within the landscape, the winery was designed based on the gravity-flow concept.

The oenology of João Rosa Alves with consultancy by Tiago Alves de Sousa follows the philosophy that Menin Wine Company defined for the project: producing top-of-range wines that reflect the DNA of this region and that best represent its terroir.

In the vineyard as in oenology, there is the same philosophy: sustainability, quality and long term. Menin wines will be a reflection of its terroir, complex and with character, full of finesse and great potential.