Varietal Encruzado from the Penalva cooperative at 8.46 euros including tax, the cheapest bottle on this list that still tastes unmistakably of the grape on its label.
Tip: The same cellar's Encruzado took a gold medal at the 2026 Melhores Vinhos do Dão; the co-op counter is open on weekdays.
Varietal Cerceal-Branco at 14.11 euros, a grape that rarely gets bottled on its own here. The 2023 took a Città del Vino gold medal collected at the Penalva wine festival.
Tip: The producer describes it as a white with marked acidity and austerity that will keep, and asks you to drink it slowly.
A reserva red for 9.59 euros. The 2020 took a Città del Vino gold medal in Italy and a prize at the tenth Crédito Agrícola wine competition in 2023.
Tip: This is the bottle to buy by the case; nothing else on the co-op list gives you a medalled reserva for under ten euros.
Varietal Jaen at 8.46 euros, the grape Galicia calls Mencia, in the soft early-drinking style that made it spread across the region after phylloxera. Gold at Cidades do Vinho 2024.
Tip: Serve it cool, around 14 degrees. Jaen is the one red here that takes a chill and still holds its perfume.
The estate's white blend at 7.75 euros on its own shop, the lowest-priced bottle Quinta Dom Vicente sells under the Dão label and a straightforward weekday white.
Tip: The same shop lists the unoaked Encruzado at 12.60 euros; order both and the 50 euro free-shipping threshold is within reach.
A white made from Touriga Nacional, the region's noble red grape vinified off the skins, at 12.95 euros. An unusual bottle and a cheap way to taste an idea rather than a category.
Tip: Compare it with the estate's red Touriga at 19.60 euros to see what the skins actually contribute to the grape.
A white blend of Encruzado and Bical from altitude vineyards on granite, fermented and aged in stainless steel, 14.50 euros on the estate's own organic-farmed shop.
Tip: Textura farms 22 hectares organically across seven parcels; the Pretexto is the range that shows what that costs at entry level.
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...