Founded in the mid-18th century, Casa Ferreirinha was the first traditionally Port wine producing estate to create high-quality Portuguese table wines. With over 250 years of wine-making experience, Ferreirinha has been able to build an unparalleled historical archive of the Douro region. This gives the estate a deep knowledge of the climate, soil, and native Portuguese varieties which flourish along the banks of the area's eponymous river. Famous in Portugal for generations, it has only been in the past 20 or so years that Ferreirinha has really risen to world-wide prominence. The Casa's product quality has also been lauded as one of the most significant factors in the warm reception of Portuguese wines into the global market. The estate's flagship wine, Barca-Velha, is now the best example of what table wines from the Douro can be.