Knowing that the potential of a great wine is to a large extent conditioned by the quality of its grapes, the aim of our approach to vineyard management is to achieve the best grapes, uninterruptedly and as “close” to nature as possible. Our Vineyard team has thus been perfecting its knowledge with notable results in terms of the quality of our grapes and the consequent quality of our wines.

Most of the grapes for our wines are supplied by our own Estates (Esporão and Perdigões), but we also have 15 local partners with whom we have long-term contracts for the supply of high-quality grapes. 2 members of our technical team also specialise in monitoring these suppliers, guaranteeing that the rules of the “Esporão Grape Supplier Manual” are scrupulously complied with.

Schedule of Work Installation of Vine

Agricultural sustainability and best practices:

• All our vineyards follow the principles of "integrated pest management" and part follow the principles of organic farming;

• Most of our soils do not receive any type of call, practice what we believe will contribute to better protection, fertility and sustainability of soils. It is also an important contribution that we give to the capture of CO2.

• Only use pesticides when they are strictly necessary. To minimize its use, we use the best information systems, based on historical information and mathematical models help us predict the occurrence of pests.

• Only use contact herbicides (not contaminate the soil) used in this lab ruçadoras (cutters) to manage the herbs that appear in the vineyard. In the vineyards "organic" (about 80ha) not use any products.