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Mateus wine is a medium sweet sparkling rosé produced in Portugal. The brand was created in 1942 and production began at the end of World War II. The wine was especially styled to appeal to the rapidly developing North American and northern European markets. Production grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s and by the late 1980's, supplemented by a white version, it accounted for over 40% of Portugal's table wine exports. At that time, worldwide sales were 3.25 million cases per year. Sogrape, the family company that owns the brand and is the largest wine producer in Portugal, has diversified into other areas of the Portuguese wine industry as the popularity of its Mateus brand has declined.
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- Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999.
