Eighteenth-century baroque manor built by Luís de Albuquerque de Mello Pereira e Cáceres, making wine since its first bottling in 1852 and a five-star hotel since 2009.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 17:00 for visits and tastings; the house has been a five-star hotel since 2009.
Casa de Cello's Dão estate near Penalva do Castelo, 20 hectares planted to Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão by a family in its fourth generation of vine growing.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00.
Cooperative formed in 1960 that took its first grapes in 1967 with 43 members. It now has about 950 and makes some six million litres a year, 80 per cent of it red.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the cooperative by arrangement.
The Parador's dining room at Penalva do Castelo, cooking from the estate itself: Quinta da Ínsua Dão wine, farm-made Serra da Estrela cheese, Bravo de Esmolfe apples and house jams.
The shop of the Penalva do Castelo cooperative, constituted in 1960 and now counting about 950 members, selling the full Adega de Penalva range at the cellar door.
The Montebelo group's guided visit to the 18th-century Ínsua manor at Penalva do Castelo, taking in the gardens, the estate production and the wine cellar.
An afternoon beside the town hall where the Penalva bottlers pour, local crafts and food share the square, and the municipality hands over the medals its producers won at the Città del Vino competition in Italy.
Tip: In 2026 it fell on Sunday 23 August. Adega de Penalva and Casa da Ínsua both collected Città del Vino gold medals that afternoon.
An 18th-century manor at Penalva do Castelo with 24 rooms, 6 suites and 5 apartments, the only Portuguese house in the Spanish Paradores group, set in its own vineyards and gardens.
The list: Wine-tasting cellar stocked with the Quinta da Ínsua Dão wines made on the estate, plus a gourmet store selling estate wine, Serra da Estrela cheese and Bravo de Esmolfe apples
A cheese-making workshop run by the Montebelo group around the Serra da Estrela DOP cheese produced on the Casa da Ínsua farm, the pairing that defines Dão dining.
A tasting of the Ínsua estate's own production at Penalva do Castelo: the Quinta da Ínsua Dão wines, farm Serra da Estrela cheese, Bravo de Esmolfe apples and house jams.