Sara Silva, the president of CVA, classified the 2024-2025 campaign as “quite positive”, “in terms of quality and also quantity”, after producers had a “record year, compared to the last 20 years of campaigns”, which added up to “two million litres”.

This number is “quite significant” in the evolution that the production of Geographical Indication of the Algarve and Denomination of Origin Lagos, Portimão, Lagoa and Tavira has had in recent years in the region, she highlighted.

“We have around 60 economic agents and we effectively closed this harvest with this number, with a significant increase in the white and rosé wines section, which has gradually increased, in line with what our consumers are looking for, especially those who are in and visiting the Algarve”, she stated.

The CVA's top executive noted that most wine consumption in the Algarve is done during the spring and summer periods and there is a great demand for products such as white and rosé.

“And increasingly our native grape variety, Negra Mole, is also having a greater presence in production”, she praised, emphasising that the Algarve has no difficulty in placing its production, mainly sold in the region, through the Horeca channel (Hotels, Restaurants and Cafeterias/Commerce).

Sara Silva also highlighted the “great impact” of wine tourism on the production of certified Algarve wines, which sells products “with added value” on farms where “experiences” are made available to visitors within the scope of wine production.

“Our data indicates that around 70% is sold in the region, another part at the national market level and, fluctuating a little each year, between 12% and a maximum of 15% for some type of export”, she quantified.

The person in charge explained that exports “are concentrated in just a few producers” because most “sell everything in the region itself”.

Certified producers in the Algarve thus had a “good productive year”, which is also the result of “new vineyard areas” that have been enabled in recent years and of new producers, who have increased from 30 in 2017 to the 61 that currently exist.

Sara Silva highlighted the dynamics of the sector in the Algarve, which stands out more for its quality and authenticity than for its quantity and was one of the few in the country that had “a significant increase, in the order of 20%”, while others struggle with excess wine in 'stock' or production breaks.