Vinhos Barbeito was founded in 1946 by Mário Barbeito de Vasconcelos in Portugal and has since then always been run by members of the family. At the time of Barbeito’s foundation over 30 other Madeira Wine exporters were operating in the business. Little by little, Mário Barbeito gained clients in many parts of the world, always trying to build a good and close relationship with them. Some of our actual clients and suppliers are still from his time. Mário Barbeito passed away in 1985 and his daughter Manuela de Vasconcelos, took over the general management of Vinhos Barbeito. She was already working for the company since 1976. One of Manuela Vasconcelos's most important tasks was to continue her father’s work of strengthening relationships with customers and promoting our wines at prestigious wine fairs around the world. This policy is still maintained to this day.
1991 was the year of the beginning of many changes in Vinhos Barbeito, being one of the most important joint ventures with the Kinoshita family, with whom we had already a close commercial and personal relationship since 1967. This decision enabled us to concentrate our efforts on aging, producing, and blending the best quality wines. It was like going back to the past, when our grandfather just wanted to produce and sell good bottled wine, even if only in small quantities. In 1991 another important change occurred in our company: for the first time, someone from our family became responsible for the making of the wine. In 1993, after two years of learning the “secrets” of our wines’ style and character as well as studying modern techniques of winemaking, Ricardo Freitas faced alone his first grape harvest. Thinking of the future, we began building a working team in which all members work under the same motto: produce good quality wines with a unique style. Since then Vinhos Barbeito never stopped investing in the purchase of good quality grapes to make fine wines. To achieve that goal, year after year, we work to establish closer relationships with farmers.
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