Founded in 1955 with the name Adega Cooperativa da Região do Moscatel de Setúbal, Adega Cooperativa de Palmela is one of the main centres of development of Palmela that is markedly agricultural and where the vineyard and the wine have, for historical reasons, a fairly large importance. The main wine-growing area lies on the sandy plain that makes up a large part of the Municipality of Palmela.

Adega Cooperativa de Palmela began its activity with 50 members and with a production that did not exceed 1.5 million litres. Nowadays, the production exceeds 8 million litres, with capacity to reach 10 million, with 75% being Red Wine, 15% White Wine and 10% Moscatel de Setúbal Wine.

It currently has 300 members that have a combined area of 1000 hectares.

A substantial part of the production is bottled through 5 automatic bottling lines . Adega Cooperativa de Palmela has, over the years, been updating both its manufacturing and bottling technology, and is today a certified unit (ISO 9001-2000) since June 2003, with dedication and effort of its 40 employees.