CARM (Casa Agrícola Roboredo Madeira) is the strictly family-owned wine and olive-oil company of the Roboredo Madeira family at Almendra, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, whose farming in the Douro Superior is documented since the mid-17th century; it works only fruit from its own estates — around 200 hectares of vines, 220 hectares of olive groves and 60 hectares of almond orchards around Almendra, inside the Côa Valley archaeological reserve — with its oldest vineyard planted in 1966 and organic production introduced across its quintas. CARM Tinto has held a Systembolaget fixed-assortment slot in Sweden since March 2019 (art. 234701, SEK 109) through importer Stellan Kramer AB.
CARM describes itself as a strictly family company: the Roboredo Madeira family’s agricultural activity around Almendra, where the Douro begins its exclusively Portuguese stretch and the world’s oldest demarcated wine region starts, is documented from the mid-17th century, and the family has been growing vines there since the end of the 19th century. The objective, in the company’s words, has always been to produce high-quality olive oils and wines only from the olives and grapes of its own quintas — roughly 60 hectares of almond orchards, 220 hectares of olive groves and 200 hectares of vineyard in the Douro Superior, within the Côa Valley archaeological reserve. The oldest vineyard dates from 1966; since then the family has kept planting, refining clonal selections of traditional varieties and converting to organic production. Quinta de Calabria, at the foot of the hill that once held a Visigothic bishopric, is typical: about 45 hectares of south- and east-facing schist between 125 and 170 metres, with seven hectares of vines planted in the mid-1980s and mostly centuries-old olive and almond trees of local varieties.
The Swedish presence is a fixed-range listing, the most commercially valuable kind at Systembolaget: CARM Tinto (art. 234701, SEK 109) has been in the monopoly’s fast sortiment since March 2019, which means every store in Sweden can stock it, through the Stockholm importer Stellan Kramer AB. The range that stands behind it — CARM Reserva and Grande Reserva reds and whites, single-variety Touriga Nacional, Rabigato and Códega do Larinho, SO2-free wines, the Vinha da Urze and Vinha do Bispado labels, an LBV port and the Maria de Lourdes and Marquês d’Almeida lines — is sold alongside the family’s olive oils and vinegars.
Douro Superior estates that control their own fruit and carry an organic story are exactly what Nordic monopoly buyers look for when they refresh their fixed ranges, and CARM shows what a durable listing looks like: a single, competitively priced red that has survived several annual revisions of Systembolaget’s fast sortiment since 2019. The olive-oil side of the business is an under-used second door into the same Nordic retail channels.
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