It all started when the big landlord and beer magnate José Rovisco Pais donated his Pegões properties to the Lisbon State Hospitals. On these properties the Government implemented a large "colonization" project, donating land to thousands of agricultural workers and directing the plantation of 2900 acres of vineyards. These workers became known as "Colonos".
The Cooperative was estabilished on March the 7th 1958 in order to give technical and logistic support to the "colonos". Part of the support consisted in the reception and processing of their grapes. The first Pegões wines where than born.

At the beginning the Cooperative received financial and technical support from the State. As a consequence of the Portuguese revolution of 1974, the Cooperative was taken over and a period of instability followed. This process was later reversed and over the last fiftheen years the Cooperative followed a systematic strategy of modernization and finantial consolidation whit the key objective of continuously improving the quality and value of its wines.

During this period the Cooperative spent about seven million Euros to buy new vinification and cold stabilization equipment and several batteries of vats for fermentation under controlled temperature. Other equipment purchased included pneumatic and vacuum presses, a modern bottle filling, labelling and packaging line, effluent treatment facilities, cellars for wine aging whit more than 1.000 casks, improvements to the buildings and access roads, etc.
Advanced computing systems were installed for administrative and process control purposes. The Cooperative is certified in accordance with NP EN ISO 9001:2000 and HACCP.

Pegões wines have been distinguished with several awards at the most important international wine contets.
With a vineyards area of 1017 hectares and an average annual grape production of about seven thousands tons, 74% red and 26% white. The red varities are: Castelão (Periquita) 94% and Touriga Nacional, Aragonês and Cabernet Sauvignon amongst others. As for the whites, the majority are Fernão Pires 40% and Muscat 25%, Tamarez, Arinto, Antão Vaz, and Chardonnay making up the remaining 35%.

Activity
Producer

Wine region
Península de Setúbal

Contacts
Rua Pereira Caldas, 1 R/C
2985-158 Pegões Velhos

Tel.: 265898860
Fax: 265898865

E-mail: geral@cooppegoes.pt
Página Web: http://www.cooppegoes.pt

Brands:

Adega de Pegões 2007 White | Terras do Sado Fernão Pires, Moscatel, Arinto		Adega de Pegões 2006 Red | Terras do Sado Castelão
Adega de Pegões Alicante Bouschet 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Alicante Bouschet		Adega de Pegões Aragonez 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Aragonez
Adega de Pegões Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Cabernet Sauvignon		Adega de Pegões Colheita Seleccionada 2006 White | Terras do Sado Antão Vaz, Arinto, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc
Adega de Pegões Colheita Seleccionada 2004 Red | Terras do Sado Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira		Adega de Pegões Syrah 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Syrah
Adega de Pegões Touriga Nacional 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Touriga Nacional		Adega de Pegões Trincadeira 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Trincadeira
Fontanário de Pegões 2007 White Fernão Pires		Fontanário de Pegões 2005 Red Castelão
Fonte do Nico 2007 White | Terras do Sado Fernão Pires, Moscatel, Arinto		Fonte do Nico 2006 Red | Terras do Sado Castelão
Vale da Judia 2007 White | Terras do Sado Moscatel		Vale da Judia 2005 Red | Terras do Sado Castelão, Alicante Bouschet
Vale da Judia Colheita Seleccionada 2004 Red | Terras do Sado Alicante Bouschet , Cabernet Sauvignon, Tinta Miúda , Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira