Eighteenth-century baroque manor built by Luís de Albuquerque de Mello Pereira e Cáceres, making wine since its first bottling in 1852 and a five-star hotel since 2009.
Address: Casa da Ínsua, Ínsua, 3550-126 Penalva do Castelo, Portugal, Dão
Casa de Cello's Dão estate near Penalva do Castelo, 20 hectares planted to Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão by a family in its fourth generation of vine growing.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00.
Cooperative formed in 1960 that took its first grapes in 1967 with 43 members. It now has about 950 and makes some six million litres a year, 80 per cent of it red.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the cooperative by arrangement.
Casa de Cello's Dão estate near Penalva do Castelo, 20 hectares planted to Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão by a family in its fourth generation of vine growing.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00.
Cooperative formed in 1960 that took its first grapes in 1967 with 43 members. It now has about 950 and makes some six million litres a year, 80 per cent of it red.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the cooperative by arrangement.
Amorim family estate on a triangular plateau at Silvã de Cima with 40 hectares of vines, a rock-cut Roman lagar and a contemporary adega facing the Serra da Estrela.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 11:30 to 16:00. Roman lagar, vineyard and cellar visits with the Barrel Top Walk and Wine House tastings, Sunday walks, harvest picnics and paired Douro and Dão flights.
Signature wines: Taboadella Villae, Taboadella Grande Villae
Organic and biodynamic estate at Mouraz, 25 hectares in scattered granite parcels between 200 and 400 metres. Ecocert-certified since 1996, working biodynamically since 2006.
Tasting: Visits to the vineyards and cellar at Mouraz by arrangement with the producer.
Third-generation estate at Santa Ovaia de Cima with vines first planted in the 1950s, an old parcel over 50 years and blocks of Touriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro and Jaen from 2003.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 14:00 to 18:00, with four guest rooms in a house set among the vines.
Sister-run estate at Santa Ovaia de Cima held by the same family for over 200 years, with vines planted between the 1920s and 1960s and a first quality bottling project from 2018.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 19:00.
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...
