History
ACV - Caves Valpaços, C.R.L. was created by a group of wine-growers who experienced difficulties to market their wine. They held a meeting on July 14th 1956 when they signed a public deed recorded by Valpaços notary, which gave birth to ACV.
ACV founding partners were:
| Augusto Pinto Sequeira | António Augusto Veloso Martins |
| Amílcar Morais | Luís de Castro Saraiva |
| Manuel Medeiros | António José de Carvalho |
| Alfredo Videira de Castro | António Joaquim Branco |
| Francisco Teixeira Lopes | Olímpio Seca |
| António Dias Ribeiro | Américo Magalhães de Carvalho |
| António José do Carmo Rodrigues Sarmento | Luís Cândido de Carvalho |
| António Manuel Guedes | Ana Rita Teixeira |
| Alice do Nascimento Teixeira Fernandes | Manuel Joaquim Ferreira de Castro |
| Amândio Sarmento Ferreira de Castro | Raul Victor Videira |
| João Manuel de Castro Barroso | José Alfredo dos Reis |
| João José Monteiro Guimarães | Luís Manuel Paulo |
| António Rodrigues | António Abel Vieira |
| José Mesquita | José Augusto dos Santos |
| João Batista Barroso | Maximiano Lopes Afonso |
| Raul Machado Silva | José Manuel Gomes |
In its origin, ACV activities were limited to the municipality of Valpaços and the neighbouring civil parishes of Jou, in the municipality of Murça and Vale de Telhas and in the municipality of Mirandela. Throughout the last years its influence has spread out over the whole municipality of Mirandela.
Currently around 2 000 producers are associated to ACV, being its yearly average production 7 500 mil. kilograms of grapes, later transformed into the precious and well-known Valpaços wines.
ACV has gained important domestic and international market shares. ACV wines can be virtually found all over Europe, and in