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.
Signature wines: Pedra Cancela Selecção do Enólogo, Pedra Cancela Touriga Nacional
Address: Avenida da Liberdade 15, Areal, 3530-061 Nelas, Portugal, Dão
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.
Santar estate created in 1997 with 15 hectares of vines and more than 20 of forest, running vinification, cellars, bottling and shop from one complex built in 2000.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 19:00, with tastings and a wine shop at the adega built in 2000.
Seventeenth-century manor and chapel at Carregal do Sal that inspired the founding of Dão Sul in 1989, now the Dão home of Global Wines and its Cabriz range.
Tasting: Monday to Saturday visits at 11:30, 15:30 and 18:30, with a restaurant and tasting rooms in the winery complex.
Signature wines: Cabriz Colheita Seleccionada, Quinta de Cabriz Reserva
Carlos Lucas founded Magnum Vinhos at Carregal do Sal in 2011, with its head office and winemaking at Quinta do Ribeiro Santo and vineyards at Quinta de Santa Maria in the Dão.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 19:00, weekends by prior booking. Meals for groups of six to sixteen with prior booking.
Signature wines: Quinta do Ribeiro Santo
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...
