The company Sociedade Agrícola do Monte Novo e Figueirinha, Lda is established since 1998, and is founder is Comendador Leonel Cameirinha. The managers of the company are the founder and his grandson Filipe Cameirinha Ramos.
Herdade do Monte Novo e Figueirinha is a 300 hectare area of flat and good quality land, near S. Brissos, some 5 Km from Beja, in Alentejo, the south region of Portugal.
The main productions of the state are the vineyard and the olive yard. Grape and olive varieties are carefully selected to give body to high quality wine and olive oil, with all the distinctive characteristics of the region of Alentejo.
The Adega da Figueirinha was built in 2003, and is a modern winery equipped with the latest technology, to meet an annual production capacity of 800 thousand litres of wine. The winemaker is Filipe Sevinate Pinto.
With a 170 hectare area of olive trees, in 2006 the company decided to build the Lagar da Figueirinha, with a production capacity of 8 million tons of olives, which produces a high quality olive oil. From 2009 / 2010 our production capacity has increased and is now 7 milion tons of olives.
The technical consultant for the olive oil production is João Gomes.