The history of Favaios is intertwined with that of the cooperative winery that brought the most popular Moscatel in Portugal to life. This Douro wine village has a long history and heritage that are now being captured in a book.

The Douro wine village where Moscatel de Favaios is born has much history to share. Inhabited since pre-Roman times, it was an important economic center in the Middle Ages and has played a crucial role in the Douro region, notably through the efforts of various local leaders in defending the plateau and this UNESCO World Heritage wine region.

“The wealth of heritage in our community,” as understood by Adega de Favaios, should be recorded “for future memory,” explained Rui Paredes, a board member of the cooperative, during the book launch of “Favaios, História e Património” on Saturday, November 12, at Adega de Favaios.

“This book also represents Adega de Favaios’s sense of social responsibility,” noted historian Gaspar Martins Pereira, the book’s coordinator: “The most important company in Favaios wanted to offer the people of Favaios a book about their history, their heritage, and about itself, as an integrator of the heritage and economy of Favaios.”

Gaspar Martins Pereira also praised “the strong involvement of Favaios’s vintners in the cooperative” and highlighted the importance of collective participation for the sustainable future of the parish, which is also marked by depopulation and an aging population affecting the country’s interior.

If Favaios has managed to preserve “identity aspects with two thousand years of history,” we can only conclude that we are dealing with “a people with a future,” concluded the renowned historian.

The book launch is part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of Adega Cooperativa de Favaios, which will also include the release in December of a commemorative Moscatel, a limited edition featuring the best seven harvests from the last seven decades of Moscatel stored at the Adega.