Madeira Vintners is the Madeira wine brand launched in 2012 by CAF – Cooperativa Agrícola do Funchal, a Funchal farmers’ cooperative founded in 1951, and presented as the first new Madeira wine producer in more than 80 years. Its wines are made by an all-female team, and six of them, from the entry-level Dry and Sweet to a Malvasia 10 Years Old, are listed in the order range of Norway’s Vinmonopolet through the importer Champagneinwest AS.
CAF – Cooperativa Agrícola do Funchal was founded in 1951 to support local farmers. In 2012 it created Madeira Vintners, which the cooperative describes as the first new producer of Madeira wine to emerge on the island in more than 80 years. Grapes come from vineyards on Madeira and Porto Santo, are picked by hand and aged by the traditional canteiro method, in wooden casks warmed naturally in the cooperative’s lodges. The brand stresses that its technical management, winemaking, marketing and cellar work are led entirely by women, and its wines won an award at the Vino y Mujer international competition in Madrid before their commercial launch (reported by DN Madeira in May 2017).
In Norway, Vinmonopolet lists six Madeira Vintners wines in its order range, all active and imported by Champagneinwest AS with NBS Logistics AS as distributor: Madeira Vintners Sweet (art. 13683101, NOK 251.60), Dry (art. 13683201, NOK 340.20), 5 YO Dry (art. 13683301, NOK 348.90), 5 YO Sweet in 50 cl (art. 14442502, NOK 318.10), Boal 5 YO (art. 21114501, NOK 444.00) and Malvasia 10 YO (art. 21114401, NOK 656.90). Six lines is a broad range for a small Madeira house on a monopoly catalogue where the category is dominated by a handful of long-established shippers.
Fortified wines remain one of Portugal’s most dependable categories in the Nordic monopolies, but the Madeira shelf is usually filled by the island’s old shipping houses. A cooperative brand with six order-range listings shows that a newer, smaller producer can secure a Norwegian importer and a full range rather than a single bottle. NorthSouth HQ’s Vinmonopolet census of Portuguese products tracks how Madeira and other regions are represented on the Norwegian shelf.
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