Márcio Lopes Winemaker is the Porto-based project of one of Portugal’s most awarded young winemakers, spanning Pequenos Rebentos (Vinho Verde), Proibido, Permitido and Anel (Douro Superior) and Telégrafo (Ribeira Sacra, Spain). In summer 2026 his wines reached both Scandinavian monopolies within a fortnight — Vinmonopolet on 1 July and Systembolaget on 17 July.
Lopes cut his teeth alongside Alvarinho master Anselmo Mendes in Melgaço from 2005, released his first own wines in 2010, and in February 2020 collected the Revelation Winemaker of the Year 2019 award. His portfolio deliberately works the Atlantic edge of Portuguese wine: skin-contact and low-alcohol Vinho Verde under Pequenos Rebentos, old-vine Douro Superior parcels under Proibido, and Galician schist under Telégrafo.
Summer 2026 turned into his Nordic breakout: Pequenos Rebentos wines entered Vinmonopolet’s ordering range in the 1 July launch, and on 17 July the litre-format Txim-Txim 2025 collaboration with Adega Vinomoto hit Systembolaget at 200 kronor through importer Boa Pressao — 2,400 bottles that Swedish wine media flagged as a summer pick.
Lopes shows how fast a small, critically rated Portuguese producer can scale Nordic distribution once importers on both sides of the Öresund engage: two monopolies, two importers, sixteen days.
The Txim-Txim 2025 collaboration launched at Systembolaget on 17 July 2026 and was featured by ELLE Sweden as a Friday-wine pick.
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