Alentejo estate winery in Vidigueira founded in 1988 by Hans Kristian Jorgensen (Danish-American) and Carrie Jorgensen. Cortes de Cima produces single-varietal and blended Alentejo wines and is distributed in Sweden through specialist importer Pompette.se for Systembolaget.
Cortes de Cima was established in 1988 in Vidigueira, southern Alentejo, by Hans Kristian Jorgensen (Danish-American background) and Carrie Jorgensen, who acquired a working estate and replanted it with a deliberate mix of Portuguese native and international varieties — Syrah, Touriga Franca, Trincadeira, Alicante Bouschet and Aragonez. The estate produces a range from the entry-level Chaminé through Cortes de Cima Reserva to the single-varietal Touriga Nacional, with the wines built around a contemporary, fruit-forward Alentejo style.
The estate’s Nordic footprint is anchored by its long-running Swedish distribution. Pompette.se represents Cortes de Cima for Sweden’s state alcohol monopoly Systembolaget, with multiple SKUs available through the Systembolaget catalogue. The Danish-Scandinavian ownership heritage has also created durable on-trade visibility for the brand across Copenhagen and Stockholm restaurant lists.
Cortes de Cima is one of the most explicitly Nordic-anchored Portuguese estates: founder lineage, importer relationship and target market all line up. For Portuguese producers studying the Swedish channel, it is a textbook case study of how a single specialist importer can sustain a multi-decade Systembolaget position without recourse to mass-market volume plays.
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