Douro producer founded in 2001 by winemakers Jorge Seródio Borges and Sandra Tavares da Silva in Vale de Mendiz, built around Pintas — a 1.5-hectare old-vine field blend of some forty varieties — alongside Pintas Character, the Guru white and the Manoella family-vineyard wines. In Sweden the wines are imported by Handpicked Wines, with Pintas Character listed at Systembolaget (art. 9490901).
Wine & Soul was founded in 2001 when winemakers Jorge Seródio Borges and Sandra Tavares da Silva set out to bottle old-vine Douro terroir under their own name, starting with Pintas — a 1.5-hectare field blend of roughly forty intermingled varieties in Vale de Mendiz, made in quantities of only a few thousand bottles. The range grew to include the second wine Pintas Character, the old-vine white Guru, and the Manoella wines from the Borges family vineyards, establishing the house among the Douro’s most respected boutique producers.
In Sweden the wines are brought in by importer Handpicked Wines, and Pintas Character holds an active Systembolaget listing (art. 9490901) — putting the estate’s structured Douro reds within reach of Swedish restaurants, collectors and monopoly customers through a named-importer relationship of long standing.
Premium Douro table wine is the category that upgrades Portugal’s Nordic wine story from volume to value. A cult-scale producer holding a Swedish monopoly listing shows the top of the Portuguese pyramid travels north too — and gives Swedish sommeliers a reference point for what old-vine Douro can be beyond Port.
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