Adega at Lagarinhos, in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, established in 1892 and one of the houses behind the 1908 demarcation of the Dão. Old vines kept, cellar modernised.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Signature wines: Casa da Passarella O Enólogo, Casa da Passarella Villa Oliveira
Family project started in 2018 on the Serra da Estrela slopes, farming 22 hectares organically across seven parcels at Vila Nova de Tazem and Penalva do Castelo.
Tasting: Visits, tastings and wine tourism at the estate on the Serra da Estrela slopes, by arrangement.
Casa Américo's Gouveia property inside the Serra da Estrela natural park, and the source of the Vinha de Púcaros Touriga Nacional Resíduo Zero, which the producer states is the first Iberian wine made from grapes with no pesticide residues.
Tasting: Visits by prior booking at the Quinta do Paço vineyard inside the Serra da Estrela natural park.
Signature wines: Vinha de Púcaros
Vila Nova de Tazem estate assembled parcel by parcel by Alberto Oliveira Pinto, with vines at 500 to 600 metres on granite and traces of schist, farmed under integrated production.
Tasting: Wine shop Monday to Friday 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00; visits any day by prior booking.
Ten hectares at 500 to 600 metres in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, producing since 2007 and bottling three vegan ranges alongside its Touriga Nacional and Encruzado.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00.
Cooperative founded in 1954 at Vila Nova de Tazem, in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, with vines hidden among pine and olive groves beside the Mondego.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the adega at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, by arrangement.
Quinta and rural hotel at Vinhó in the Serra da Estrela, a project begun in 2008 with the hotel opening in January 2013, farming 15 hectares of vines plus olives and pasture.
Tasting: Rural hotel with eight rooms, a junior suite, a suite and rustic houses, plus cheese dairy, olive press and adega on the estate.
A century-old burel textile mill at the edge of the Serra da Estrela natural park, converted into a winery with three priced tasting tiers at 10:30 or 15:00 on weekdays.
Booked visits at the 19th-century Passarella house above Gouveia, on fixed slots at 10:30, 14:30 and 16:30 from April to October and at 10:30 and 14:30 the rest of the year.
The table inside the converted burel mill at São Paio, with a regional cheese board at EUR 23, charcuterie at EUR 27 and three or four course menus at EUR 49 and EUR 59.
The restaurant of the Madre de Água estate at Vinhó, drawing on the quinta's own cheese dairy, olive grove and cellar on the Gouveia side of the Serra da Estrela.
The bottling cellar and shop of Casa Américo at São Paio near Gouveia, selling the Monte Estrela, Sonante and Cabeça d'Velho ranges from the Serra da Estrela sub-region.
A rural hotel opened in 2013 on a 15-hectare Gouveia estate of vines, olive groves, a cheese dairy and a cellar, with eight standard rooms, a junior suite and a suite plus cottages.
The list: Cellar tours, vineyard visits and tastings of the estate's Dão wines, all by prior booking, plus an on-site wine shop
A group day at the converted burel mill above Gouveia combining a vineyard tour, the winery visit and a lunch matched to the Textura range, for eighteen to fifty people.
Five marked walking routes leaving the Madre de Água estate at Vinhó, from the Madre de Água circuit and Alto do Tovio to the shepherds' route and the Serra da Estrela trail.
A family project started in 2018 on the Serra da Estrela slopes that farms 22 hectares organically across seven parcels at Vila Nova de Tazem and Penalva do Castelo, with a wine shop attached.
Tip: The Pretexto range at 14.50 euros is the cheapest organically farmed Dão bottle on the estate's own list.