Carregal do Sal quinta named for the founders' grandfather Vicente, running tastings, cellar visits, vineyard picnics and food-pairing workshops on the estate.
Address: Avenida 234 n.º 211, Fiais da Telha, 3430-168 Carregal do Sal, Portugal, Dão
Quinta do Cruzeiro at Oliveira, Mangualde, where Julia de Melo Kemper took on the family property in 2003 and released the first wines in 2008.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00. Cellar visit with two wines, vineyard and cellar visit with three wines plus bread and estate olive oil, and group lunches or dinners.
Quinta do Soito started as an agritourism unit; two schoolteachers turned it into Soito Wines in 2013, farming seven hectares of vines plus the nearby Quinta do Cabeço da Roda.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, weekends by prior booking. Two-wine and three-wine reserve tastings, guided vineyard and cellar visits, picnic baskets and tailor-made programmes.
Signature wines: Soito Reserva
The Monteiro Albuquerque family has farmed here since the late nineteenth century; the fifth generation started bottling in 2006 and released the first wine, a 2010 red, in 2013.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:30 to 17:30; other days, weekends and public holidays by prior booking.
Signature wines: Menino Afonso, Avô António Reserva Encruzado, Avó Fernanda Branco
Silgueiros estate whose top wines carry the names of family forebears, Dona Georgina, Dona Santana and Dona Louise, and which houses the Mesa de Lemos restaurant.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the estate; the Mesa de Lemos restaurant serves Friday and Saturday by prior booking.
Signature wines: Dona Georgina, Dona Santana, Dona Louise
Small family estate on an organically farmed vineyard at 365 metres above the Dão river, bottling numbered, hand-sealed reds from Alfrocheiro, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Jaen.
Tasting: Vineyard and cellar visit with a three-wine tasting, with wines available to buy at the quinta.
Silgueiros estate with documented viticulture going back more than a century. Grapes went to the local cooperative from 1964 to 1998; the family began bottling its own labels in 1999.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 10:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Signature wines: Quinta da Falorca T-Nac, Quinta da Falorca Garrafeira
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...
