AdegaMãe is a Lisboa-region winery in Ventosa, Torres Vedras, founded in 2010 by the Riberalves group — Portugal's best-known codfish house — in tribute to family matriarch Manuela Alves. With winemaking guided by Anselmo Mendes, its Atlantic-influenced wines are listed and sold by Systembolaget, Sweden's state alcohol monopoly.
AdegaMãe was built by the family behind Riberalves — the country's benchmark bacalhau processor — on a roughly 40-hectare property at Ventosa, outside Torres Vedras, with 35 hectares of vineyard and a modern winery completed in the early 2010s. Winemaking is guided by Anselmo Mendes, the Monção-born enologist best known for his Alvarinho work, and the house style leans on the cool Atlantic influence of the Lisboa region: saline whites and fresh, mid-weight reds at an output of roughly two million bottles a year.
That profile has translated into Nordic distribution: AdegaMãe wines are listed and sold by Systembolaget, placing the estate's Atlantic whites in front of Swedish consumers through the state monopoly — the single most important sales channel for wine in the Nordic region.
AdegaMãe pairs two corridor stories in one company: a Portuguese food-industry family (cod traders who buy heavily from Norway) diversifying into wine, and that wine flowing back north through Sweden's monopoly shelves. Atlantic-profile Lisboa wines fit Nordic palates — and monopoly listings remain the clearest external validation a Portuguese producer can earn in Scandinavia.
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