Mateus

Mateus is one of Portugal’s most globally recognized wine brands, created in 1942 by Fernando van Zeller Guedes, founder of Sogrape. Conceived as Portugal’s first rosé wine with international ambitions, it quickly became a staple in export markets from the 1950s onward, at one point accounting for a large share of the country’s table‑wine exports and becoming a pop‑culture icon thanks in part to its distinctive flask‑shaped bottle modeled on World War I soldiers’ canteens.

The core style is a lightly sparkling, me…