Santar estate built around the Paço dos Cunhas of 1609, with four centuries of wine and olive oil, an organically farmed old vineyard and a restaurant in the manor house.
Tasting: Tastings, cellar visits and a restaurant at Paço dos Cunhas de Santar, the 1609 manor house, with a wine shop and tasting room.
Signature wines: Casa de Santar Vinha dos Amores, Santar Reserva
Garden and vineyard circuit launched in 2013 by the Vasconcellos e Souza family, linking the vine gardens of the Casa dos Condes de Santar with other manor houses in the village.
Tasting: Summer Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:00, winter Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:00, with garden-and-vineyard programmes and tailor-made visits.
Fifteen hectares of vines, olives, orchards and ponds at Santar, on granitic sandy soil above the Dão river, long known as the house of the village's visiting schoolmistresses.
Tasting: Visits to the vineyards, adega and grounds at Santar by arrangement.
Santar estate created in 1997 with 15 hectares of vines and more than 20 of forest, running vinification, cellars, bottling and shop from one complex built in 2000.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 19:00, with tastings and a wine shop at the adega built in 2000.
The tasting side of the 17th-century Santar estate, walking visitors through the cellars, the barrel room and the estate collection before a seated flight of Casa de Santar wines.
The wine shop and tasting counter at the centre of the Santar garden village, with guided garden slots at 10:00, 12:00, 15:00 and 17:00 through the summer season.
The dining room of a 17th-century Santar estate that has sent wine, oil and fruit to Porto for four centuries, now pairing regional cooking with the house wines under Global Wines.
The dining room of the Valverde Santar hotel in the 16th-century mansion at the top of the village, working the Dão vineyards that run down the slope below it.
Wine courses run alongside the vineyard and cellar visits at the 17th-century Santar estate, taught on the veranda of the tasting room in fine weather.
A guided route through the six historic gardens of Santar and the Casa de Santar estate, sold in five packages from the garden circuit to a gourmet version and a tailor-made day.
A guided walk through the Casa de Santar cellars, barrel room, estate collection and vineyards, closing with a tasting, booked by email with the estate.
The regional commission's competition awards evening. The 2026 edition handed out 43 distinctions at the Museu do Vinho e das Artes in Santar, from one best wine and five platinum medals down to gold and silver.
Tip: Morgado de Silgueiros Touriga Nacional 2023 took best wine in 2026; the medal list published afterwards is the most useful shopping guide the region produces.
The Santar estate bottles an aged wine brandy under the Vinha do Contador label beside the organic red and white from the same walled vineyard, sold at the estate shop.
Tasting: Vineyard and cellar visits with tastings and wine courses, plus a shop at the estate
A 16th-century Santar mansion turned hotel and spa, with the Memórias dining room and a vineyard page of its own on the Dão slopes below the village.
The list: Dão vineyard visits from the hotel, a harvest programme in September and a wine-led menu at the Memórias restaurant
Three 55 square metre villas named Maria Quitéria, Maria Luísa and Maria Teresa, set among the boxwood, camellias and hydrangeas of the century-old Casa de Santar gardens.
The list: Guided garden and estate routes with tastings of the Santar Vila Jardim wines and access to the estate wine shop
A restored two-bedroom Beira cottage of 55 square metres in Santar, run by the Vila Jardim estate a short walk from its gardens and wine shop.
The list: Guests book the estate's garden and wine tasting packages at the Santar Vila Jardim shop next door
The gourmet version of the Santar garden route, adding food and wine to the guided circuit through the six historic gardens of the village.
Global Wines farms the vineyard inside the Paço dos Cunhas walls in modo biológico, including the Vinha do Contador, on a property raised in 1609 at 400 metres.
Tip: Clos de Santar comes off the vineyard enclosed by the estate's own granite walls; ask to walk it rather than only taste it.
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...