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Quinta da Folgorosa

A long-established Dois Portos estate near the Atlantic, with organically grown vineyards and a saline, acid-driven Folgorosa Branco.

The producer

Quinta da Folgorosa stands in Dois Portos, Lisboa, with about 50 hectares of vines between 200 and 300 metres above sea level and roughly 20–25 kilometres from the Atlantic. Folgorosa Branco 2024 brings its documented profile into focus: fruit and texture on the palate, then salinity and acidity through a dry finish.

Founded by the Biker Correia family in 1711, the estate was acquired by Thomas Lindeborg in 2019. The producer states that all vineyard production is grown organically. Alongside the 2024 white, Folgorosa Branco 2020 is described with fresh fruit, acidity and mineral character, offering a brighter, more linear expression.

Known for

Organically grown Lisboa whites with fruit, texture, salinity and acidity.

Notable facts

The story

Red First, White Next

Quinta da Folgorosa dates its foundation to 1711, but its own chronology records two much later bottling milestones. In 1980, the estate made its first bottled red wine. The following year, 1981, it made its first bottled white. Red came first, then white, at a property in Dois Portos whose history began with the Biker Correia family. The two dates sit close together but mark separate wines and separate colours: 1980 for red, 1981 for white. Today, Folgorosa Branco remains the clearest documented white-wine example from the estate, with the 2024 bottling described through fruit, texture, salinity and acidity.

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Quinta da Folgorosa

At A Glance

Quinta da Folgorosa is an estate in Dois Portos, in Portugal's Lisboa region, founded in 1711 by the Biker Correia family. It reports about 50 hectares of vineyards, set 200–300 metres above sea level and roughly 20–25 kilometres from the Atlantic. Those site markers sit behind the documented shape of Folgorosa Branco: fruit carried by acidity, with mineral character in the 2020 and salinity in the 2024.

The Producer

The estate's long history and its current ownership meet in a compact vineyard holding rather than a single named cru or grape. Thomas Lindeborg acquired Quinta da Folgorosa in 2019, while the property retains its 1711 foundation date and Biker Correia family origin. Its bottles are anchored in Dois Portos, and the clearest documented white is Folgorosa Branco, a blend whose profile centres on fruit, acidity and texture.

Place

Dois Portos places Folgorosa within Lisboa, with the Atlantic roughly 20–25 kilometres away. The estate's own pages differ slightly on the distance, but both locate the vines close enough to the coast for maritime conditions to matter in the way its Branco is described: fresh fruit is met by acidity rather than a broad, soft palate.

The fields also sit between 200 and 300 metres above sea level. Elevation and Atlantic proximity are the physical facts available here; no soil type or appellation claim is documented. In the glass, the useful connection is modest but clear: Folgorosa Branco is described with acidity and salinity, two features that make the white feel dry and active through the finish.

Soil And Site

No named soil is supplied for Folgorosa, so the site begins with height and distance from the sea. Vines at 200–300 metres in Dois Portos work within a coastal Lisboa setting, while the estate's stated Atlantic range is 20–25 kilometres. The resulting wine evidence is vintage-specific rather than estate-wide: the 2020 Branco has fresh fruit, acidity and mineral character; the 2024 has fruit, texture, salinity and acidity.

Story

Quinta da Folgorosa began with the Biker Correia family in 1711 and now reports approximately 50 hectares of vineyards. Its timeline includes a later turning point in 2019, when Thomas Lindeborg acquired the property. The documented continuity is not a claim about unchanged methods: it is the continued existence of an estate in Dois Portos whose current wine evidence centres on a white blend with freshness, mineral detail and a saline edge.

The estate also dates its first bottled red and white wines to 1980 and 1981. Those dates place bottled wine within a much longer property history, and they frame the present Folgorosa Branco as part of an estate that works in both colours rather than as an isolated white-wine project.

Vineyards And Cellar

Folgorosa states that all vineyard production is grown organically. That is a farming claim, not a substitute for unstated cellar detail: the supplied material does not document oak, lees ageing, fermentation vessel or extraction. What can be carried into the wine description is the producer-wide vineyard practice alongside the documented Branco profile—fruit, acidity, mineral character, texture and salinity.

The estate's approximately 50 hectares give the organic work a meaningful physical scale. In the bottle, however, the useful detail remains specific to vintage: 2020 is described through fresh fruit and mineral character, while 2024 adds a textured palate and saline note to its acidity.

Wines

The documented range begins with an estate history of bottled reds and whites from 1980–1981, then becomes clearest in Folgorosa Branco. The 2020 Branco is a blend with fresh fruit, marked acidity and mineral character. It is not simply a list of components: acidity keeps the fruit dry and lifted, while the mineral note points the finish away from sweetness.

Folgorosa Branco 2024 is also documented as a blend, with fruit, texture, salinity and acidity. The texture makes it a more tactile white than a purely sharp, light-bodied example; salinity and acidity keep that weight in motion. The available evidence does not support naming the grapes or presenting either vintage as the estate's flagship.

In The Glass

With Folgorosa Branco 2020, begin with fresh fruit, then follow the line of acidity into a mineral finish. The wine's documented structure suggests a dry white whose fruit is shaped by lift rather than by sweetness or oak.

The 2024 Branco offers a different sequence: fruit first, then a textured mid-palate, with salinity and acidity carrying the finish. Its appeal lies in that contrast between tactile weight and a dry, savoury edge. These are separate vintage descriptions, not a promise that every Folgorosa wine will taste alike.

A Bottle To Understand It

Start with Folgorosa Branco 2024. It is the most fully documented bottle in the supplied range: a white blend with fruit, texture, salinity and acidity. The palate has more weight than a simple citrus-driven white, yet the saline note and acidity keep it dry and clean through the finish. It introduces the estate through its present, concrete wine evidence rather than through an unsupported hierarchy.

Anecdote

Quinta da Folgorosa dates its foundation to 1711, but its own chronology places the first bottled red wine in 1980 and the first bottled white wine in 1981. The sequence is brief and exact: red came first, followed by white the next year, at an estate in Dois Portos with a much older property history behind it. The account does not name the person who made the bottling decision, the grapes in either wine, or the cellar method used. What is recorded is the pair of years and the two colours: 1980 for the red, 1981 for the white. Those bottles mark the documented point at which Folgorosa's estate story included red and white wine under its own name.

Final Word

Quinta da Folgorosa offers a grounded Lisboa white-wine starting point: organically grown vineyard production, vines between 200 and 300 metres, and a coastal setting near the Atlantic. Folgorosa Branco 2024 brings those facts into a glass through fruit, texture, salinity and acidity.

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