Independent Douro producer founded in 2001 by winemaker couple Jorge Serôdio Borges (ex-Niepoort) and Sandra Tavares da Silva, working old mixed-variety vineyards in Vale de Mendiz, in the Cima Corgo. Its flagship Pintas and its Ports are listed at both Nordic monopolies — Sweden’s Systembolaget and Norway’s Vinmonopolet.
Wine & Soul’s Nordic route to market runs through both state monopolies. In Norway, Vinmonopolet carries the flagship Pintas Douro 2015 (article 8121501) and the house’s 10-year-old tawny Port (article 10089001); in Sweden, Systembolaget lists the Wine & Soul Tawny Porto 10 Years (article 7621301). Dual-monopoly presence is the strongest verifiable signal of a working Scandinavian export channel for an independent Douro producer.
The house itself is a defining project of the modern Douro. Founded in 2001 by Jorge Serôdio Borges, previously oenologist at Niepoort, and Sandra Tavares da Silva, one of the Douro’s pioneering female winemakers, it restored an old Port lodge in Vale de Mendiz and built its reputation on field-blend vineyards of more than forty native varieties, low yields and minimum intervention — the profile Nordic monopoly buyers have increasingly favoured in their premium Portuguese ranges.
Wine & Soul is the archetype of the new-wave Douro producer converting critical acclaim into monopoly listings — small-volume, terroir-driven wines finding a stable premium channel in both Norway and Sweden.
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