Casa de Sarmento, S.A. (NIF 501105808; share capital €1,256,275), registered at Sernadelo, 3050-382 Mealhada, is the wine and food arm of a Bairrada family group that began in 1980 with the Meta dos Leitões roast-suckling-pig restaurant on the EN1 at Mealhada and grew into a restaurant chain with several locations around the country. The purchase of two estates in the Alentejo, in the Portalegre sub-region, and one in Bairrada made the group self-sufficient in wines and sparkling wines, olive oil and farm produce; its Espumante Branco Bairrada won gold at the 2016 Portugal Wine Trophy. Casa de Sarmento Branco Bruto 2024 sits in Systembolaget’s fixed assortment (art. 2012801, SEK 149) through the importer Boa Pressão AB, launched on 1 March 2025.
Casa de Sarmento holds the listing that most Portuguese producers never reach: a place in Systembolaget’s fixed assortment (fast sortiment), the core range stocked in stores across Sweden rather than ordered in on request. Its Bairrada sparkling Branco Bruto 2024 (art. 2012801) has been in that range since 1 March 2025 at SEK 149, imported by Boa Pressão AB, a Swedish importer specialised in Portuguese wine. On NorthSouth HQ’s census of the monopoly on 12 September 2026, Portugal had only 91 fixed-assortment lines among 579 products, so a Bairrada sparkling wine in that group is a meaningful commercial position.
The company behind it is Casa de Sarmento, S.A. (NIF 501105808), registered at Sernadelo in Mealhada with share capital of €1,256,275. Its own history starts not with vines but with a restaurant: Meta dos Leitões, opened in 1980 on the EN1 at Mealhada in the heart of the Bairrada region, which became a chain with several locations around Portugal. Two estates bought in the Portalegre sub-region of the Alentejo and one in Bairrada made the group, in its words, self-sufficient in wines and sparkling wines, olive oil and farm and livestock production, sold under the Casa de Sarmento label alongside charcuterie and honey. The Espumante Branco Bairrada took a gold medal at the 2016 Portugal Wine Trophy.
Sparkling wine is Bairrada’s strongest export argument and Systembolaget’s fixed range is the hardest Nordic shelf to reach; a restaurant group that grew into a producer and then into the Swedish core range shows the route runs through an importer who can win a tender and defend the line in the monopoly’s periodic revisions. For Portuguese producers, the case is a reminder that the fixed assortment, not the order catalogue, is where Nordic volume is made.
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