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.
Address: Rua Dr. António Borges 122, 6290-632 Vila Nova de Tazem, Gouveia, Portugal, Dão
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.
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.
Family estate at São João da Boavista in Tábua, on a slope facing the Açor range at the southern edge of the Dão, where granite gives way to schist.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 18:00, visits by prior booking.
Oliveira do Hospital estate begun in 1987, now about eight hectares including century-old vines, split between the home quinta and Quinta de Santo António at 470 to 550 metres.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:30 to 17:30, weekends by prior booking.
Signature wines: Vale do Cesto, Serra d'Alva, Muros Vadios, Alva Magna
Three hectares of stony clay-limestone soil on the left bank of the Alva at 200 to 400 metres, planted to Baga and Encruzado in 2019 and worked with spontaneous fermentation.
Tasting: Family wine tourism project with vineyard and cellar visits by arrangement.
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
Nelas family estate whose vines sit at an average 450 metres on granite and quartzite soils, vinified without new wood in a deliberately classical Dão style.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
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...
