Van Zellers & Co.

Cristiano van Zeller is one of the Douro region’s most important ambassadors. With great passion and convincing authority, the storyteller par excellence carries the stories of the Douro Valley, its vintners, and its wines around the world.

Christiano’s career began back in 1981 managing Quinta do Noval. In 1993, after selling Noval, Cristiano turned his focus to the development of the new Douro DOC wines and supported projects such as the start of Quinta do Crasto and Quinta do Vallado. In 1996, he started his own project, Quinta Vale D. Maria, a small property that had been in his wife’s, Joana, family for over 250 years and which had been producing award winning Douro Wines ever since.

In 2007, Cristiano acquired full ownership of the old family Port company Van Zellers & Co. as a gift from his cousin João van Zeller, since then rebuilding the old Port stocks and creating new Douro wines, including one of the Douro stars: CV-Curriculum Vitae Douro White and Douro Red.

The company

Today, the Van Zellers and Co. winery sees a new light with the 14th and 15th Generation, celebrating 400 years of the family in the Port trade which Cristiano relaunched with a new image, a new philosophy and a new range of wines.

Respect for the Douro Valley, for its heritage, diversity, expression, tradition and people are what enchants the Douro Boy about the wine business on a daily basis.

Innovation, perseverance and reinvention are what makes the Van Zellers & Co. winery a unique must-try experience. Van Zellers and Co. expresses today’s Port and Douro wines in three different categories – wines that have been Crafted by Hand, by Time or by Nature.

These three factors are responsible for the creation of such diversity in styles, flavors, and complexity of the Van Zellers’ Ports and Douro wines. It’s their own craftmanship and knowledge, time itself or the magic behind nature, that transforms Port and Douro wines into something unique in each bottling. Whether you’ll taste their red or white wines or their ports – maybe the white port, their ruby or 20 year tawny port, perhaps – they are an experience to behold and carry not only the Van Zellers signature, but also the stories of the breathtaking valley along the Douro river.

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Van Zellers and Co. is preparing a new website, where you’ll be able to book the companies’ experiences and join the family in its new journey.

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Cristiano van Zeller is one of the Douro Valley’s most important ambassadors. With great passion and convincing authority, he spins tales like no other. Cristiano is the communicator par excellence and leaves and indelible image of the Douro and its wines all over the world.

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EM502,
Portugal

Email: cristianovanzeller@vanzellersandco.com

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5150-501 Vila Nova de Foz Côa
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Tel: +351 279 762 156
Email: geral@quintadovalemeao.pt
Web: www.quintadovalemeao.pt
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