Quinta dos Penassais ★ 4.1
Family estate at Cumieira in São João de Lourosa, on south-facing granite, making around 30,000 litres of red and 10,000 of white from the Dão's recommended varieties.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 19:00.
ClassificationDOC Dão
VarietalsTouriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro, Syrah, Encruzado
OwnerJaime de Almeida Barros
TastingVisits and tastings at the quinta in Sabugosa by arrangement.
NeighbourhoodViseu
Location
Address: Rua das Amoreiras 9, Cabanões, 3500-885 Viseu, Portugal, Dão
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Quinta de São Francisco ★ 4.3
Eighteenth-century Solar do Visconde de Treixedo at Lourosa de Cima, bought in 1996 by Horácio Marques da Rua, who planted Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz in 1998.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 18:00 for visits and tastings.
UDACA ★ 4.1
União das Adegas Cooperativas do Dão, founded in 1966 at Coimbrões in Viseu, with a shop, museum and cellar and storage for six million litres.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00, with a shop, museum, auditorium and underground cellar on site.
More vineyards in Dão
Quinta dos Penassais ★ 4.1
Family estate at Cumieira in São João de Lourosa, on south-facing granite, making around 30,000 litres of red and 10,000 of white from the Dão's recommended varieties.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 19:00.
Quinta de São Francisco ★ 4.3
Eighteenth-century Solar do Visconde de Treixedo at Lourosa de Cima, bought in 1996 by Horácio Marques da Rua, who planted Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz in 1998.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 18:00 for visits and tastings.
UDACA ★ 4.1
União das Adegas Cooperativas do Dão, founded in 1966 at Coimbrões in Viseu, with a shop, museum and cellar and storage for six million litres.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00, with a shop, museum, auditorium and underground cellar on site.
Casa da Ínsua ★ 4.7
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.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 17:00 for visits and tastings; the house has been a five-star hotel since 2009.
Quinta da Vegia ★ 4.5
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.
Adega Cooperativa de Penalva do Castelo ★ 4.1
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.
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