Brands of Portugal

Brands of Portugal Importer and Wholesaler of Wine & Spirits from Portugal. Focusing on small family-owned projects.

Supporting other Portuguese businesses is something incredibly important to us. Collectively, we can share all the rich ...
06/10/2026

Supporting other Portuguese businesses is something incredibly important to us. Collectively, we can share all the rich culture that Portugal has to offer, and also how the children and grandchildren of Portuguese immigrants have created their own paths here in the USA and abroad.

When we heard about Joao's List we immediately saw synergy. Carlos and Melissa, the husband and wife team behind it, created a directory for Portuguese businesses throughout the USA. Driven to showcase their culture and roots, they collaborate with businesses and tell each business's story so there's a personal connection.

Today, on Day of Portugal, we're excited to announce our collaboration with Joao's List and will have more news on upcoming events soon. We're appreciative of them welcoming us and are here to support any business looking to start or expand their wine & spirits selection from Portugal. Saúde!

06/09/2026

Portuguese language classes now included with the purchase of every bottle of wine! 🤣🙃

The Day of Portugal week celebration continues on Thursday, June 11th from 4-7pm at for our only Rhode Island retail tasting event of the week.

We're featuring a selection of 10 wines including some never before tasted items from new producers that we've recently added to our portfolio.

The Town team is going to put together some light Portuguese inspired snacks to pair with the pourings.

Don't miss this once a year event! After all, these might be World Cup Winning Country Wines! 🇵🇹💪🏻🙃

06/09/2026

I am beyond thrilled to welcome Materramenta as the newest, exclusive addition to our portfolio and we are incredibly proud to have their wines exclusively in the USA.

Materramenta is a project born out of pure passion, led by married couple Madeleine Rocha and Luís Vasco Cunha, and winemaker Constantinople Ramos . When they started, they made a deliberate choice to put quality above everything else. And honestly, it takes a true labor of love to make wine in the Azores. There is nothing easy about it; it is heroic winemaking at its finest. No machines, no shortcuts just sheer physical labor, tending to every single vine by hand.

The terroir on the islands of Terceira and Graciosa and is absolutely magical, but it’s no small challenge to work with. The vines are grown in curraletas tiny plots carved into volcanic ground and protected by hand-built black stone walls. These walls shield the vines from brutal Atlantic winds and trap the sun’s heat to help the grapes ripen.

Terceira (D.O. Biscoitos): The vines grow right in the volcanic stone near the ocean, giving the wines a striking minerality and a gorgeous, salty sea-breeze finish.

Graciosa: Using native grapes like Verdelho and Arinto dos Açores gives the wine an incredibly vibrant, clean energy and textured complexity.

For us, the best wines always tell a story of a family and a place! Materramenta literally bottles the essence of the Azores, the warmth of the stone, the spray of the ocean, and the heart of the people who make it. This Açoreana couldn’t be any more thrilled!!

We can’t wait for you to experience these incredible, limited-production gems.

Interested? DM us for a tasting or to find out which retailer carries them.

05/30/2026

Client Spotlight: Welcome to Portugalia Marketplace, your destination for all things Portugal! 🇵🇹 Explore over 20,000sqft of unique flavors and finds that transport you across the Atlantic. 🌊 Owner, Michael Benevides and the team at Portugalia will welcome you on your journey through aisles filled with tinned fish 🐟, specialty cheeses 🧀, the largest selection of Portuguese wines 🍷 in the country, and so much more. If you haven't visited, add it to your summer bucket list. If you have, don't miss the continual rotation of new items added weekly. Be sure to say hi to our friend André, while you walk through Castas & Trigo (the wine section). We refer to him as a “national treasure”. Let him guide you on the perfect Brands of Portugal bottle from the largest selection in the country! If you visit on a Saturday, you might even catch us there pouring wines during the weekly wine and spirits tastings. Leave your passport at home, Portugal is only a drive away! Saúde!

05/28/2026

Let’s be honest for a second: most of us don’t open a bottle of wine because we’re craving “subtle hints of wet stone” or a lecture on soil types. We open a bottle to match a feeling, a moment, or an energy.

That’s honestly exactly how I choose what I’m drinking, so I want to try something fun.

We just got a beautiful new vintage drop from . Instead of giving you a spreadsheet of tasting notes, here is how to pick your bottle based entirely on your mood tonight:

1. The Mood: “Out of Office”
The Wine: Curvos Escolha

You just shut your laptop on a Friday, the sun is finally out, and you can literally feel the week’s stress melting away. This one is effortlessly crisp, bright, and easy. It tastes exactly like a warm afternoon breeze. No overthinking allowed.

2. The Mood: “Confident Energy”
The Wine: Curvos Alvarinho

You’re feeling a little elegant, a little extra, and 100% ready to treat yourself. You’re having a good hair day, you love your outfit, even put some heels on you have an extra pep in your step.
Maybe you’re cooking a gorgeous dinner, or maybe you just want a white wine with a ton of personality, great structure, and a brilliant, sunny attitude. This is your elevated, confident go-to.

3: The Mood: “Purely Spontaneous”
The Wine: Curvos Pet-Nat

Unfiltered, bubbly, and ready for absolutely anything. This is for when you’re hanging out with your favorite people, turning up a great playlist, and letting the night go wherever it wants. You have your hair up, and you look cute. It’s fun, it’s a little wild, and it is completely unpretentious. Pop the cap and let’s go.

Wine should be inviting, fun, and shared with the people you love—not intimidating.

So, which mood are you channeling tonight? Let me know in the comments! 👇

05/26/2026

My parents immigrated from the Azores, and Chris carries his own connection as well as his grandfather was Azorean. The history, the resilience, the struggle of these islands and their people… it’s something we carry with us every day in what we do.

That’s why working with these wines means so much to us. They’re not just bottles, they’re stories of survival, of vines growing out of volcanic rock, of generations who made something extraordinary in one of the most challenging and beautiful places in the world.

We’re proud to share and represent:

Picowines — incredible partners of ours over the last few years, rooted in tradition and the heart of the island. A coop made of 250 families! We’ve added even more to our line, look for those the next few days.

Vulcao— from Faial, a new producer who captures the raw, untamed energy of the Atlantic and of the ash left from the catastrophic eruption on the island. I cannot wait to write about the history and the relationship to New England!

— from Terceira, also a new producer, another eye-opening project that you have to see to believe. This team is doing some note-worthy things. So much info to share about them as well.

These wines are unlike anything else — shaped by lava, ocean winds, and history.

Our goal has always been simple: to help more people discover and taste something truly special not only from mainland Portugal but from the Azores.

These are small and very limited productions, if you want to schedule your tastings to get your hands and taste buds on these, contact us.

— Nelly & Chris

05/20/2026

So much happening around here and we're long overdue for an update! We celebrated 5 years in business this year! It's been a crazy journey but half a decade in, we still love what we're doing despite the endless stress. In January we won the Anchor Awards Alied Member of the Year! Super grateful for all of you that voted for us. This week also began a portfolio refresh of adding new products and producers to our lineup. More on that soon but it's about to get extra salty around here... and also Naked! 😳 Details soon. Beyond that, we've partnered with some really great distributors in various states throughout the USA whom we will be talking about soon. Absolutely love spreading Portuguese wine and spirits throughout the 🇺🇸! Last thing, June is going to be a crazy month and the first two weeks we're lining up a bunch of events that you won't want to miss so pencil us in ✍🏻. Listen, we can't express this enough, super grateful for the support over the past 5 years. We hope we're representing 🇵🇹 the best way possible! Saúde!

04/25/2026

On our way to the if you didn’t get tickets shame on you!! The line up is 🔥

Ele ou Ela how do you say it??

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these and we’ve run into so many people that recognize us from them (which is a hoot) so then it’s time……

Funeral home: Growing up I said enoteca (sp?) assuming the word came from trying to speak English and saying undertaker?? but can’t possibly be the only one! says it the proper way casa funerária, how do you say it?

**First I found this illustration by this week, her work stuns me with every image. Make sure to check out it out and r...
04/25/2026

**First I found this illustration by this week, her work stuns me with every image. Make sure to check out it out and read her descriptions !

Today is April 25th—Dia da Liberdade—and honestly, my heart is extra full today. 🇵🇹❤️

For anyone who doesn’t know, today marks the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. In 1974, Portugal ended nearly 50 years of a stifling dictatorship. But the most beautiful part? It was a non-violent revolution. It wasn’t won with bullets; it was won with flowers.

The story goes that when the soldiers marched into Lisbon to reclaim the country, a woman began handing out red carnations. Instead of firing their weapons, the soldiers placed the flowers into the muzzles of their rifles. It was a peaceful transition to democracy that changed the course of our history forever. It’s why you see red carnations everywhere today in Portugal, or in your feed, they are the ultimate symbol of hope and freedom.

I can’t help but think about my parents and our families. By 1974, they had already immigrated to the US to build a new life had only been here a few years, but their hearts were still firmly planted in Portuguese soil.

I can only imagine what it must have felt like for them, watching from across the Atlantic. To see the country you love finally “wake up.” To hear the news through letters or crackling phone calls that the home you left was finally free. There must have been such a mix of relief, tears, and an overwhelming sense of pride. For them, it wasn’t just a political shift; it was the hope that their families and friends back home could finally breathe, speak, and live without fear.

That same spirit of resilience and “peaceful strength” is what we try to bring into Brands of Portugal every single day. We don’t just share wine; we share the soul of a people who chose flowers over fire.

25 de Abril sempre! Fascismo nunca mais. ✊🌺

Lastly a very big Happy 76th Birthday to my dad João Agostinho Arruda today!!!

PortuguesePride

04/22/2026

I caught this video at .dos.santos and I had to share, look at that color variation! It’s wild to see white, pink, and deep ruby all on the same cluster, sitting right next to a bunch that’s almost jet black.

This is Negra Mole, and it’s the ultimate “chameleon” grape.

As the second oldest variety in Portugal and the soul of the Algarve, Negra Mole has spent centuries adapting to our southern coast. Because it’s so ancient, it has mutated into all these different clones, creating that beautiful watercolor effect you see on the vine. A photographers dream!

For years, it was a bit overlooked, but it’s finally getting the respect it deserves. I love it because it’s the perfect “pique-nique” wine…..it’s the Algarve’s answer to a Pinot Noir or a chilled Gamay.

What to expect in the glass:

The Look: Usually a beautiful, pale translucent red.

The Profile: Light-bodied and elegant with notes of wild strawberry and a hint of sea salt.

Pro Tip: Serve it with a slight chill. It’s incredible with local charcuterie or even a nice cataplana.

It’s rustic, authentic, and a true piece of Portuguese history. 🇵🇹

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310 Bourne Avenue, BLDG # 22-3
Rumford, RI
02916

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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