PEOPLE

Catarina Sequeira graduated in Economics in 2009, at the Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, having had executive training in Marketing and Sales. The youngest daughter of the Correia de Sequeira's, she is lively and passionate about the Douro such as her mother Maria Elisa. Soon after graduating, she started working for one of the main Portuguese telecommunication companies, Sonae.com Optimus, in the Mass Business Department for the team management and development of services to clients. But when her mother fell ill the Douro call became stronger. An enthusiastic advocate of the Golddrink project, she left her Lisbon career to devote full time to the family business in the Douro. There you can find her on the busy schedules of managing the Quintas, horse riding and devoting to her love for animals.

Nuno Morais graduated in Enology at the University of Trás os Montes and Alto Douro with a specialization at the School of Biotechnology at the Catholic University of Porto. He started his professional activity in the Marketing and Sales Area in the Wine Sector before completing his training in Oenology.

Despite the commercial activity, which began in the late 1990s, both in the domestic and foreign markets, he has been linked to wine production since 2005, having passed through practically all regions of Portugal and, in France, in the regions of Burgundy and Languedoc. In 2018, after being in markets such as China, Europe and the Americas, he definitely returned to Portugal to dedicate himself to his passion for wine. The dynamics and versatility that characterizes it leads it to be almost everywhere: In the cellar or vineyard, in the warehouse or at a wine show. Born in Porto, he finally returned to the Douro, where the appeal was always strong, where everything began... where everything is reborn.

The connection to the Douro and the willingness to embrace new challenges brought Luís Correia to the Golddrink group. Graduated in Tourism at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and Postgraduate at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, he has always been linked professionally to tourism and wine tourism. His experience includes traveling along the Port Wine Route, working in hotels at Pousadas de Portugal and rural tourism, where he cultivated a special aptitude for teamwork. Today he applies his experience in the administrative area and in supporting tourism and wines at Quintas de Marrocos, Vale de Sapos and Sequeirinhas.

Raquel Santos was born in Lamego in 1995. She was attending a degree in Languages and Business Relations when a taste for travel took her on an ERASMUS program in Germany. There she discovered a passion for tourism that today she nurtures as a Tour Guide at Quinta de Marrocos. In addition to welcoming tourists, in tours and wine tastings, she is always ready to help others. Whether it's in the office or in the kitchen, she stands out for the cheerfulness, she loves going out at night, movies and TV series.

If it was possible to discover the origin of all the actions of which we are proud of, we would find it in our mother's heart. Maria Elisa was born in Lisbon in 1949. In 1971 she followed her husband César Sequeira while finishing his PhD at the University of London. After returning, she devoted entirely to the family and to the Quinta they had inherited the Douro.

Passionate about the arts, she finished the studies in Interior Design at the Museum School Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva, in 1985. Four children and the farm duties kept her away from design, but in the Douro she rebuilt Casa de Marrocos and took off with tourism. She died in 2013 still active and enthusiastic, firmly believing in the potential of Douro and asserting herself by her simplicity and femininity.