Casa Américo's Gouveia property inside the Serra da Estrela natural park, and the source of the Vinha de Púcaros Touriga Nacional Resíduo Zero, which the producer states is the first Iberian wine made from grapes with no pesticide residues.
Signature wines: Vinha de Púcaros
Address: Quinta do Paço, Nespereira, 6290-208 Gouveia, Portugal, Dão
Vila Nova de Tazem estate assembled parcel by parcel by Alberto Oliveira Pinto, with vines at 500 to 600 metres on granite and traces of schist, farmed under integrated production.
Tasting: Wine shop Monday to Friday 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00; visits any day by prior booking.
Ten hectares at 500 to 600 metres in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, producing since 2007 and bottling three vegan ranges alongside its Touriga Nacional and Encruzado.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00.
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.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the adega at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, by arrangement.
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.
Vila Nova de Tazem estate assembled parcel by parcel by Alberto Oliveira Pinto, with vines at 500 to 600 metres on granite and traces of schist, farmed under integrated production.
Tasting: Wine shop Monday to Friday 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00; visits any day by prior booking.
Ten hectares at 500 to 600 metres in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, producing since 2007 and bottling three vegan ranges alongside its Touriga Nacional and Encruzado.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00.
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.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the adega at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, by arrangement.
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
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...
