Some curiosities about Mateus Rosé.
It is estimated that Mateus has sold over 1.032.400.000 bottles to this day.
There is a Mateus bottle that is 4.5 metres high and weighs 2.5 tonnes? Of the best Portuguese design, very elegant and ? ?opened? in 2002.
Mateus is a pop icon. Over the years it?s been connected with personalities as diverse as Jimmy Hendrix, Amália Rodrigues, Fidel Castro and Queen Elizabeth II. (She used to order Mateus regularly, to accompany her dinners at the Savoy Hotel.)
In 1974, fearing that the Portuguese Revolution might lead to a trade embargo, the U.S. market took preventive measures by ?hoarding? 1.7 million 12-bottle cases of Mateus.
In the 1940s, its creator, Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, sent two MATEUS bottles to each Portuguese ambassador throughout the world, asking them to taste it and, should they like it, let a local friend taste it too.