News from Islands
Wines of the Cape Verde and Portugal will reach the U.S. through Portuguese companies
Praia, Cape Verde, 13 May - Two Portuguese who two years ago established a partnership in Cape Verde will be exported to Portugal and the United States much of the wine produced on the island of Fogo, said Carlos Grace, manager of the herd, partner Win Resources.
Speaking to Portuguese news agency Lusa, Carlos Graca indicated that the annual production of cooperatives and Sodade foguenses Cha is estimated at about 150 thousand bottles, and may rise in coming years, as they improved the conditions of production.
For its part, the draft Maria Chaves, who will enter the market over a significant amount of bottles, estimated at about 200,000, and Monte wormwood, which is in the process of contacts, will significantly increase production, he added.
"Given the small production, the possible, which does not fill many containers, the idea is to extend to other traditional products that can represent an added value for exports," said the manager of the herd and partner win Resources, a company linked to agro business-led by businessman and Davide Freitas.
The investment of the two Portuguese companies, which have been supported by the Cape Verde Investments, is valued in the first phase of the project, around 25,000 Cape Verdean escudos (about 227 thousand euros), depending on the results to move to other areas.
Source: macauhub
