This is a family that has always been connected to wine. The first records date back to the 11th century, but from the 18th century onward the Böhm family's mission to the industry became more evident, being one of Germany's leading wine importers and distributors.

 

Quinta da Plansel was born out of a misunderstanding by its founder, Jörg Böhm, when in 1961 his sailing boat sank in the port of Cascais. Forced to stay here for some time, he ended up getting to know and surrendering to different Portuguese landscapes. And it was in this way that he saw enormous winegrowing potential in the Alentejo grape varieties, and in 1975 he bought the first land for vineyards and created Viveiros Plansel.

 

The passion for wine and for Portugal would eventually infect the whole family. In the early 1990s, daughter Dorina Lindemann, an oenologist with a degree from the University of Geisenheim (Hessen), came from Germany to Portugal with her husband Thomas Lindemann and, taking advantage of the existing vineyards linked to her father's technical improvement program, dedicated herself to wine production.