Pocas Junior

"COLHEITA" OF GENERATIONS 2016-02-14

The February issue of Wine magazine published a story about Poças tradition in the production of Colheita Port Wine. All started with a vertical tasting with the wine journalist, Rui Falcão, at Poças facilities in Vila Nova de Gaia. Eight wines, from 1964 to 2000, with scores between 18.5 and 17 points, proving the existence of "Wonders" under the roof of Poças warehouse.

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It all began in 1918 when on 15 August, a few months before the Armistice, Manoel Domingues Poças Júnior, born in the heart of the Port Wine hustle and bustle, decided to establish his own company. Manoel Poças was 30 years old and he had some experience in this business. With his uncle, he created a company to sell grape spirits to large Port Wine shippers. Soon afterwards he opened the head offices in Vila Nova de Gaia, where they remain to ...

QUINTA DAS QUARTAS

The Poças winemaking centre. Planted with more than 2.5 ha of vines, this quinta is noted for its immense wine lodge where the firm’s Port Wine is aged. Up 25,000 hectolitres of wines are stored in wooden casks ranging in size from 267-Litre hogsheads to 88,000-Litre vats. Since 1996 the wines from all of Poças’ quintas have been made at this modern winery – a total of 1.1 million Litres of wine. The property also boast...

“From my childhood I accompanied my father on his trips to the Douro. The vintage was an especially magic time for me.  One of my greatest challenges was to create the line of Poças Douro table wines, beginning with Coroa d’Ouro red.”


Jorge Manuel Pintão has headed Poças’ Winemaking and Quality team since 1987. Trained in chemistry and with a Master’s in Oenology from the Institut d’Oenologie de Bordeaux, he served an apprenticeship at th...