Porto Kopke

Porto Kopke is the first & oldest Port House joined to the Sogevinus Group, which ranks fourth among the five largest Port Houses producing 85% of fine Portos. Unique among the top shippers, Sogevinus commands an 80% focus on tawny ports, maintaining stocks of over 100 years.

Kopke is the market leader for Colheita single-year tawnies, exceeding 25% in volume of the Global Share in this high quality Port. Since 1638, when the German diplomat Cristiano Kopke founded the Douro wine shipping company, Kopke has become universally recognized as the first Port house in Port wine history.

In 2008 Porto Kopke celebrates 370 years of continuous production of fine Porto with grapes from its famous Quinta São Luiz with its many gold-medal winning vintages. However, it wasn’t until 1675 that a shipment from the Douro to Holland was first called “Porto” and in 1678 that the Oporto customs office registered its first shipment of Porto to England. Today it maintains its own special character and independent cellars as the quality “standard bearer” of such other Sogevinus firms as Calem, Burmester, Barros, Hutcheson, Gilbert and Rocha.