Engenho Novo

The Engenho Novo distillery was opened in 2009 by members of the Hinton family, who had owned one of Europe's largest sugarcane processing plants, Fábrica do Torreão, until it closed in 1986. The distillery inherited its column still from there, an 8-plate, copper centennial column still, restored by Fábrica do Torreão in 1969, and again by the distillery in 2007.

The distillery produces the traditional agricola rums of Portugal's Ilha da Madeira, and markets it as the William Hinton brand.