Adega Cartuxa is the wine house of the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, the Évora foundation established in 1963, producing ~4 million bottles a year including the mythical Pêra-Manca. Cartuxa Colheita Tinto is listed at Sweden’s Systembolaget (art. 9598801) and the EA Alentejo range at Norway’s Vinmonopolet (p/4910101).
Cartuxa’s Nordic presence runs through both of Scandinavia’s biggest monopolies: Cartuxa Colheita Tinto holds Systembolaget article 9598801 in Sweden, while the everyday EA range — created in 1992 and carrying the initials of Eugénio de Almeida — is listed at Norway’s Vinmonopolet (p/4910101). Together they put the Évora foundation’s wines on state shelves across two Nordic markets.
The producer behind them is unusual: a private foundation, established in 1963 to fund cultural, educational and social work in the Évora region, whose winery at Quinta de Valbom occupies the refectory of a former Jesuit house. Around four million bottles leave the adega each year, from the accessible EA and Foral de Évora lines to Pêra-Manca, one of Portugal’s most collected wines.
Cartuxa pairs one of the Alentejo’s most prestigious names with verified listings in two monopolies at once — and every bottle sold in Stockholm or Oslo funds a foundation’s social mission in Évora, a corridor story with few parallels.
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