Kopke

Kopke Port

Established in 1638 by Christiano Kopke(from Germany) and his son(who came to Portugal as representative of Hanesca), the house of Kopke ancient of all Port wine export companies. Through out generations the Kopke firm was run by several family members of their representatives, achieving excellent reputation within the wine business sector.
Some Kopke people were deeply involved with Porto Wine Trade. especially in 19.century, times when Joaqim Kopke, so called Barde Massarelos, used to attend to most of the cut price auctions. In the meantime by the end of the 19.century. Kopke was sold to Bohane family, who tried to run the company from their headquarters in London. They were possessed the great majority of their investments.