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Warre's Port Winery
William Warre, a new resident to Oporto in the same year of 1729, had been born in 1706 at Fort St. George in Madras in India. He became a partner in the Port company and from then on it was known as known as "Messrs Clarke, Thornton and Warre". Mr. Warre was the first British national to acquire land in Vila Nova da Gaia, across the river from Oporto, which is where the heart of the shipping business was to be established (and which today, wine lovers can visit the beautiful historic lodges). Warre married Elisabteh Whitehead, the sister of John Whiehead, architect of the famed Factory House and the Consul in Oporto. Andrew Symington arrived from Scotland in the 1880's and worked alongside the warre family until he finally took shares in the company in 1912. With financial hardship brought on by years of political instability and by prohibitive laws introduced (including the "Lei do Terco" or "Law of three" in the 1950's, which required each shipper to retain stocks of three times the amount they put up for sale). This wiped out plenty of wineries and it forced the Warre's to sell the remaining shares to the Symingtons. Warre's now forms part of the largest privately owned group in the port wine industry and is fully owned by the Symington Family. |
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Warre's is widely regarded to be the oldest of the British Firms shipping Port, with records dating
back to the 1670's. John Clark is the oldest known member of the company, later followed by
Thornton, and finally being joined by William Warre in 1729. Before Mr. Warre came on board,
the company had been steadily growing as the demand for Port became greater after the Methuen
Treaty was signed in 1703. This treaty confirmed that England would defend Portugal in the
war of Spanish succession. In exchange for preferential treatment for English textiles, it
was agreed that the duty on Portuguese wines would be a third less than that levied on France.
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