Producers
For more than 25 years we have worked directly with the winemakers. Not anonymous suppliers, but people we know, visit and follow. Discover the 33 estates behind our wines, from Vinho Verde to Madeira.
Dão
Alvaro Castro
Alvaro Castro perfectly embodies the essence of The Portugal Collection: an alliance of strong personalities for whom making wine is a mission. He puts a piece of his soul into every bottle, and you can taste it.
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Vinho Verde
Anselmo Mendes
We were there when Anselmo released his first wines under his own name, and we still follow him today. He has since become ‘Mister Alvarinho’. No cellar is complete without a few bottles of his white wines.
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Dão
Antonio Madeira
Antonio Madeira grew up in Paris, but fell for the Dão during summer holidays with his grandparents. In 2010 he went in search of old vineyards in the region and made his first wines in Alvaro Castro’s cellars.
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Algarve
Atlasland
Filippo Pozzi moved from Italy to the Costa Vicentina to surf and to make wine. We have been there from the start. His wines are a model of purity and a superb expression of the terroir around Aljezur.
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Madeira
Barbeito
While other houses have been active for centuries, the Barbeito family only started making Madeira in 1946. When Ricardo Diogo Freitas took over the company in 1991, the focus shifted firmly from volume to quality.
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Dão
Beiorte
João Costa makes wines with an elegance you rarely find in the Dão. A man after our own heart.
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Madeira
Blandy's
Blandy’s is part of the Madeira Wine Company, a relatively young company with a long history. It grew out of decades of acquisitions of well-known families and brands, such as Blandy’s, Leacock’s, Cossart Gordon and Miles.
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Bairrada
Buçaco
The Bussaco Palace near Coimbra was built at the end of the 19th century as a retreat for King Carlos I. Before he could move in, Portugal became a republic and the palace became a luxury hotel. The hotel’s wines grew into a cult. We are the official importer for Belgium.
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Dão
Casa da Passarella
Wine has been made on this estate for centuries, but the previous owners lost interest in winegrowing. In 2008 the estate changed hands, and since then the driven Paulo Nunes has led its wine production.
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Lisboa
Casal Figueira
In 1999 Marta Soares swapped bustling Lisbon for a quiet estate where she could work on her art projects. She could not have imagined that ten years later she would become a winemaker there.
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Bairrada
Caves São João
In 1920 three Costa brothers founded the wine merchant Caves São João. They soon began producing their own sparkling wine, with the help of an oenologist from Champagne. The quality was right from the start.
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Madeira
d'Oliveiras
Founded in 1850, D’Oliveiras is the second-oldest Madeira house still in business. It remains a small company, producing around 150,000 litres a year. Luis Pereira D’Oliveira is the fifth generation at the helm.
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Bairrada
Filipa Pato & William Wouters
As the daughter of a renowned winemaker, Filipa Pato helped her father, but also started her own wine company. We were there even before her first wine was bottled, and we still follow her today.
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Alentejo
Gerações da Talha
Around Vidigueira, deep in the southern Alentejo, wine has been made in clay amphorae for 2,000 years, just as the Romans did. These wines long stayed under the radar because they were drunk locally. Teresa Caeiro changed that.
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Lisboa
Humus
North of Lisbon, many wine projects now make the most of the cool coastal climate. Rodrigo Filipe of Humus was the pioneer, and he remains one of our personal favourites.
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Douro
Jorge Moreira (Poeira)
In 2001 Jorge Moreira bought a small vineyard that nobody else was interested in. Against the tide, he made his Poeira there. We have been fans from day one.
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Lisboa
Luis Gil
Luis Gil probably makes the purest and most layered natural wines in our range. With Marinho he captures what makes Portugal so special to us.
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Douro
Luis Seabra
When Luis Seabra told us in 2012 that he was going to make wine under his own name, we signed up straight away. We had known him for ten years as a winemaker at Niepoort and knew we could not miss this.
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Trás-os-Montes
Menina d'Uva
Aline Domingues, the ‘girl of the grape’, grew up in Paris and studied the DNA of yeast cells as a microbiologist. In the end she chose the life of a winemaker in rural Portugal.
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Dão
MOB
MOB stands for Moreira, Olazabal and Borges: three friends and Douro winemakers, responsible for Poeira, Quinta do Vale Meão and Wine & Soul, who make wine together in the neighbouring Dão.
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Alentejo
Natusvini
‘A modern return to the past’ is how Hamilton Reis describes his wine project in the shadow of the Serra do Mendro. His Alentejo wines have little in common with what is made elsewhere in the region.
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Douro
Niepoort
Niepoort holds a special place in our range, not least because of the close bond between Dirk Niepoort and Kris Jeuris. Thanks to the endless curiosity of Dirk, and now also of his sons Daniel and Marco, the range keeps evolving.
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Lisboa
Quinta da Murta
Frenchman Franck Bodin took over the vineyards of Quinta da Murta in 2011, a beautiful estate in Bucelas, just north of Lisbon. It is said to be the birthplace of the wonderfully fresh Arinto grape.
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Bairrada
Quinta da Vacariça
François Chasans worked for Fauchon in Paris, among others, and had his own wine shop. When he discovered the Baga grape, he fell in love at once and was convinced he could make great wine with it.
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Bairrada
Quinta das Bageiras
Frederico and his father Mário Sérgio are the third and fourth generations of the Nuno family in the north of Bairrada. On 16 hectares they make wines and espumantes with a pronounced character, with Baga in the leading role.
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Alentejo
Quinta do Mouro
Miguel Louro bought the historic Quinta do Mouro near Estremoz in 1979, when it had no vineyard. The first harvest only came in 1994, and when it reached the market, it was immediately clear that Miguel does not make ordinary wine.
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Douro
Quinta do Vale Meão
Vale Meão is regarded as the very top of the Douro. At the end of the 19th century the estate was the crowning achievement of Dona Antónia Ferreira, and her descendants still do her legacy proud today.
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Alentejo
Rui Reguinga
Rui Reguinga comes from a family of winemakers. He graduated as an oenologist in the late 1980s, made his first wines in the Alentejo straight away and soon built a strong reputation.
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Lisboa
Safado
Emanuel Frutuoso started a small wine project with old vineyards near Cadaval in 2017, under the Safado label. He is the best friend of Rodrigo Filipe (Humus), with whom he also runs the Flui project.
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Vinho Verde
Soalheiro
In 1982 the Cerdeira family was the first to make quality wine from Alvarinho again. The vines João António Cerdeira planted in 1974 still supply the grapes for the top cuvée Primeiras Vinhas.
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Alentejo
Vitor Claro
Vitor Claro trained as a chef and was drawn to wine through the kitchen, especially by the finesse of Burgundy. When he discovered an old vineyard in the north of the Alentejo in 2010, his new challenge was quickly found.
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Douro
Wine & Soul
Wine & Soul began in 2001 as the life’s work of Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, two winemakers who had just married. Their wines earned international recognition almost immediately.
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Alentejo
XXVI Talhas
Our first wine trip after the 2020 lockdown was an instant hit. Four friends revived a cellar of 26 old amphorae after 30 years of neglect and brought the tradition of amphora wine back to life.
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