"With a training of oenology at the University of Vila Real (Portugal)to begin with, I had as a personal objective to widen my knowledge not only in oenology, but also in the whole of the wine sector, especially on commercial level.

By following the master " VINTAGE ", I succeeded in increasing this knowledge, on the one hand, with the organization of the modules and the quality of the interventions and, on the other hand, because I lived the reality of this sector on several countries.

To include/understand what occurs in the close area is no sufficient any more to develop our company to be competitive. We have the chance to have in a small surface (viticultural Europe) a diversity of produits/organisations and a quality of products which enables us to increase our knowledge in the sector. But it is necessary to leave our country to apprehend them.

After having finished this Master I was employed as sales manager for the Iberian peninsula by a French multinational (Vaslin-Bucher). I have no doubt that without international knowledge and the work load capacities developped during the master "VINTAGE" course, I would have never had this job. »

Luis Ponte (Master Vintage promo I)