Family estate at Abrunhosa do Mato with 35 hectares of vines, three quarters red. Began bottling varietal reds in 1996 and a barrel-fermented Encruzado in 1998.
Tasting: Cellar and vineyard visits Monday to Friday 10:00 to 17:30 by prior booking, with tastings of two to four whites and three to five reds, and meals in the tasting room for groups of 10 or more.
Signature wines: Quinta dos Roques Encruzado, Quinta dos Roques Touriga Nacional, Quinta dos Roques Garrafeira
Quinta do Cruzeiro at Oliveira, Mangualde, where Julia de Melo Kemper took on the family property in 2003 and released the first wines in 2008.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00. Cellar visit with two wines, vineyard and cellar visit with three wines plus bread and estate olive oil, and group lunches or dinners.
Quinta do Soito started as an agritourism unit; two schoolteachers turned it into Soito Wines in 2013, farming seven hectares of vines plus the nearby Quinta do Cabeço da Roda.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, weekends by prior booking. Two-wine and three-wine reserve tastings, guided vineyard and cellar visits, picnic baskets and tailor-made programmes.
Signature wines: Soito Reserva
The Monteiro Albuquerque family has farmed here since the late nineteenth century; the fifth generation started bottling in 2006 and released the first wine, a 2010 red, in 2013.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:30 to 17:30; other days, weekends and public holidays by prior booking.
Signature wines: Menino Afonso, Avô António Reserva Encruzado, Avó Fernanda Branco
José Lourenço pours his own bottlings at Abrunhosa do Mato, with three flight sizes and an optional catered lunch for booked groups. Phone ahead to confirm the slot.
The Quinta do Soito visitor programme at Fornos de Maceira Dão, split between cellar visits with tastings, vineyard picnics, paired meals and harvest days.
The Mangualde cooperative at Quinta do Melo, born in the 1960s and first crushing about half a million kilos of member fruit in the 1970s, with a shop and tastings on the vinification site.
The estate shop at Moimenta de Maceira Dão, selling the Monteirinhos range direct from the cellar in the Jaen country east of Viseu.
A Mangualde tourism-animation operator registered with Turismo de Portugal under RNAAT 126/2026, running guided activity days across the Dão plateau.
Rooms on the Quinta do Soito estate at Fornos de Maceira Dão, where the same family runs the cellar, the vineyard trails and the visitor programme.
The list: Visit and tasting, exclusive tasting, vineyard picnic, wine-paired meal and harvest days, all booked through the estate
Picking and cellar work on the Quinta do Soito estate during harvest, part of the edutainment programme that also covers vineyard days and local walking trails.
Twenty hectares of traditional Dão grapes at Quinta do Cruzeiro in Mangualde, worked without synthetic chemicals on granite at altitude, with an organic range of whites, rosés, reds and sparkling.
Tip: The estate opens daily, 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00, and pairs the tasting with bread and its own olive oil.