Vinhos Imperfeitos, the Nelas project Carlos Raposo founded in 2018 after training in Bordeaux and Burgundy and seven years making wine with Dirk Niepoort in the Douro.
Signature wines: Vinhos Imperfeitos
Address: Rua Vasco da Gama 5, 3520-079 Nelas, Portugal, Dão
Small Vilar Seco estate with 6.5 hectares of vines on a south-facing granite slope, restructured in 1999 with Dão varieties and still using its old granite lagares.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday 15:00 to 20:00; the estate also lets rooms and one-bedroom apartments in the nineteenth-century granite house.
Lusovini's Dão brand, first bottled from the 2000 harvest by João Paulo Gouveia, drawing on 75 hectares between Viseu, Mangualde, Nelas and Carregal do Sal.
Tasting: Wine tourism spaces at Nelas, Carregal do Sal, Oliveira de Barreiros and the Sé in Viseu, with vineyard walks, barrel-cellar visits, picnics and a harvest programme.
Signature wines: Pedra Cancela Selecção do Enólogo, Pedra Cancela Touriga Nacional
Small Vilar Seco estate with 6.5 hectares of vines on a south-facing granite slope, restructured in 1999 with Dão varieties and still using its old granite lagares.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday 15:00 to 20:00; the estate also lets rooms and one-bedroom apartments in the nineteenth-century granite house.
Family estate at Canas de Senhorim: 11 hectares in all, six of them vines of the main Dão varieties, vinified in the quinta's own adega alongside a 300-seat event room.
Tasting: Summer Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, winter to 17:00. Catering and events for groups of 20 or more by prior booking.
Lusovini's Dão brand, first bottled from the 2000 harvest by João Paulo Gouveia, drawing on 75 hectares between Viseu, Mangualde, Nelas and Carregal do Sal.
Tasting: Wine tourism spaces at Nelas, Carregal do Sal, Oliveira de Barreiros and the Sé in Viseu, with vineyard walks, barrel-cellar visits, picnics and a harvest programme.
Signature wines: Pedra Cancela Selecção do Enólogo, Pedra Cancela Touriga Nacional
Santar estate built around the Paço dos Cunhas of 1609, with four centuries of wine and olive oil, an organically farmed old vineyard and a restaurant in the manor house.
Tasting: Tastings, cellar visits and a restaurant at Paço dos Cunhas de Santar, the 1609 manor house, with a wine shop and tasting room.
Signature wines: Casa de Santar Vinha dos Amores, Santar Reserva
Garden and vineyard circuit launched in 2013 by the Vasconcellos e Souza family, linking the vine gardens of the Casa dos Condes de Santar with other manor houses in the village.
Tasting: Summer Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:00, winter Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:00, with garden-and-vineyard programmes and tailor-made visits.
Fifteen hectares of vines, olives, orchards and ponds at Santar, on granitic sandy soil above the Dão river, long known as the house of the village's visiting schoolmistresses.
Tasting: Visits to the vineyards, adega and grounds at Santar by arrangement.
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...