{"id":5144,"date":"2025-11-14T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/?page_id=5144"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:18:24","slug":"bernardo-napoles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/bernardo-napoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Napoles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernardo N\u00e1poles,
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Bernardo Maria Freire e Albuquerque N\u00e1poles de Carvalho was born in the Douro, in Lamego, on October 16, 1975, into a family linked to viticulture. His maternal grandparents produced around 600 barrels of Port wine in Tou\u00e7a, in the Upper Douro. His paternal grandparents were the owners of Quinta do Monte Travesso, where he has been producing and bottling wines and olive oil since 1996.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The appeal of viticulture and oenology came from a very young age and at 14 he went as a boarding student to the Conde de S. Bento Agricultural School in Santo Tirso. He then graduated in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes and Alto Douro. He later studied for a master's degree in Viticulture and Oenology at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia and undertook further training in France, in particular a winemaking course at the Universit\u00e9 Victor Segalen in Bordeaux.<\/p>

A sua atividade profissional inicia-se aos 23 anos: instala-se na quinta de fam\u00edlia como Jovem Agricultor (produtor de vinhos) e em simult\u00e2neo assume a responsabilidade da Quinta do Solar da Rede, da empresa Douro Azul (www.douroazul.com), como Diretor de Produ\u00e7\u00e3o \u2013 durante 4 anos, onde trabalha diretamente com M\u00e1rio Ferreira. Posteriormente, ao longo de 7 anos, \u00e9 Diretor Geral da Seis Quintas Mart\u00fae SA \u2013 pertencente ao grupo espanhol Mart\u00fae (www.martue.com) \u2013 propriedade atualmente denominada Quinta da Foz do Sabor (www.aveleda.com). Mais tarde e at\u00e9 aos dias de hoje, integra a prestigiada equipa de viticultura do maior propriet\u00e1rio de vinhas de montanha do mundo: o Grupo Symintgon (www.symington.com) onde entre outras fun\u00e7\u00f5es teve durante 5 anos a responsabilidade pela Quinta do Ves\u00favio \u2013 uma das mais emblem\u00e1ticas quintas do Douro. Atualmente assume a responsabilidade de quintas do grupo (Bomfim e Cavadinha) e de particulares (Quinta de Vila Velha e Quinta das Netas) de Rupert e Paul Symington, respetivamente, com com quem re\u00fane regularmente.<\/p>

In oenology, under the coordination of Charles Symington, he was responsible for the vinification of the Quinta do Ves\u00favio Vintage - Single Quinta (2014 to 2018), DOW's (2019) and GRAHAM'S (2020 to 2025) - \u201cThe Stone Terraces 2021\u201d and \u201cQuinta do Tua Vinhas Velhas 2022\u201d are some examples. On behalf of Symington, he has been a board member of ADVID (www.advid.pt) for the last two three years (2021-2024 and 2024-2027) and in a personal capacity is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Maria Rosa Foundation (www.fundacaomariarosa.pt).<\/p>

A par disto \u00e9, como referido anteriormente, produtor-engarrafador de Vinhos e Azeites na Quinta do Monte Travesso, a propriedade da sua fam\u00edlia. Sob a sua orienta\u00e7\u00e3o abriu tamb\u00e9m as portas ao Enoturismo que ganhou o pr\u00e9mio Best of Wine Tourism (categoria de sustentabilidade \u2013 2019). Atualmente esta atividade \u00e9 complementada com a oferta de Casas de Campo com piscina privada em antigas constru\u00e7\u00f5es de xisto dispersas pela propriedade.<\/p>

Among all the places where he has been responsible, he has planted more than a hundred hectares of vineyards in the Douro (Baixo-Corgo, Cima-Corgo and Douro Superior), carried out harvests in several wineries, drawn up numerous investment projects (VITIS, AGRO, PRODER, PDR) and implemented tourism and wine tourism activities. At Quinta do Monte Travesso he naturally reflects his professional experience, putting his personal stamp on the last three decades.<\/p>

Apart from wine-growing and sharing good times with his two children, his hobby is sailing: he started at the age of 11 in the Optimist class, was National Champion in Vaurien, European Vice-Champion in Snipe and competed in 5 World Championships. He cherishes the dream of sailing around the world, for which he has been preparing, adding to the practice he has acquired, the necessary seamanship and navigation charts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernardo N\u00e1poles, o viticultor velejador Bernardo Maria Freire e Albuquerque N\u00e1poles de Carvalho, nasceu no Douro, em Lamego, a 16 de outubro de 1975, no seio de uma fam\u00edlia ligada \u00e0 vitivinicultura. Os seus av\u00f3s maternos produziam cerca de 600 pipas de Vinho do Porto, na Tou\u00e7a, no Douro Superior. Os seus av\u00f3s paternos eram […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3683,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5144","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5144\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quintadomontetravesso.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}