Casa da Passarella ★ 4.4
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.
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.
Address: Lugar de Moinhos da Serra 1, 6290-411 São Paio, Gouveia, Portugal, Dão
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.
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.
Global Wines' visitor cellar beside a 17th-century manor house and chapel at Carregal do Sal, combining a booked cellar and vineyard walk with tastings and a bottle shop.
Celso de Lemos' granite winery at Passos de Silgueiros arranges cellar visits, tailored tastings, vineyard trails and picnics on the same estate as the Mesa de Lemos dining room.
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 Sirlyn estate at Santa Ovaia de Cima opens its cellar for booked tastings, one of the few producers taking visitors in the Tondela corner of the Dão.
The shop and tasting counter at Quinta das Corgas in Tábua, on the Alva side of the region, open seven days a week to walk-in visitors.
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...