Wine Attitude’s Lés-a-Lés project revives forgotten Portuguese grapes and regional styles in small-run wines.
The producer
Wine Attitude gathers winemaking collaborations from across Portugal under one organization. Lés-a-Lés covers isolated regions and forgotten grape varieties such as Jampal, Vital, Cereal and Malvasia Finta. Jorge Rosa Santos makes the wines with Rui Lopes, his friend and business partner. The range includes Lés-a-Lés Medieval de Ourém, linked to an ancestral palhete method, and a Trás-os-Montes field blend from an old Arcossó vineyard. Its labels resemble old train tickets.
Known for
Forgotten Portuguese grapes and wine styles
Notable facts
Lés-a-Lés operates within Wine Attitude as a project built from Jorge Rosa Santos’s discoveries across Portugal.
Jorge Rosa Santos vinifies Lés-a-Lés with Rui Lopes, his friend and business partner.
Individual Lés-a-Lés wines are made in quantities of 2,000 to 4,000 bottles.
Lés-a-Lés labels resemble old train tickets.
From the atlas
Wine Attitude
Portuguese collaboration umbrella behind Lés-a-Lés, a project recovering overlooked grape varieties, isolated regions and historical wine styles.
At A Glance
Field
Detail
Region
Portugal
Producer
Wine Attitude, an organization for winemaking collaborations across Portugal
Project
Lés-a-Lés
Named red
Lés-a-Lés Medieval de Ourém
Grape varieties
Jampal, Vital, Cereal, Malvasia Finta, Fernão Pires and Trincadeira
Defining feature
Small quantities from isolated regions and overlooked grape varieties
The Producer
Jorge Rosa Santos founded Wine Attitude about fifteen years before VINUM’s 2025 profile. He created the company to bring together winemaking collaborations from across Portugal under one organization. Lés-a-Lés is one project within that initiative, built from discoveries Santos made while travelling through Portugal.
Rui Lopes, Santos’s friend and business partner, vinifies the Lés-a-Lés wines with him. Their range reaches isolated regions and forgotten grape varieties, including Jampal, Vital, Cereal and Malvasia Finta. Individual wines are made in small runs of 2,000 to 4,000 bottles.
Place
Wine Attitude works through collaborations across Portugal, so Lés-a-Lés moves between regional addresses. Its Trás-os-Montes red comes from a very old vineyard at Arcossó, while Lés-a-Lés Medieval de Ourém is a red from Encostas d’Aire. The range extends to isolated areas found during Santos’s travels, with each regional name placing a different part of Portugal on the bottle.
Wines
The named bottles divide the range by region, colour and historical style. Lés-a-Lés Medieval de Ourém 2022 is a red from Encostas d’Aire made from Fernão Pires and Trincadeira. It is linked to an ancestral palhete technique, in which red and white grapes can be fermented together to make a red wine. The tradition is said to have reached Portugal through the Cistercian Order.
Lés-a-Lés Vinhas Velhas 2022 is a red from Trás-os-Montes, sourced from an Arcossó vineyard with a history exceeding a century. More than 25 grape varieties grow there, about 10 percent of them white, and the vineyard produces field blends. Lés-a-Lés Quinta das Marés 2022 is a white from Alenquer.
Final Word
Lés-a-Lés uses old train ticket labels for small runs of wine gathered from overlooked grapes, isolated regions and historical Portuguese styles.