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.
Signature wines: Dona Georgina, Dona Santana, Dona Louise
Address: Quinta de Lemos, Passos de Silgueiros, 3500-541 Silgueiros, Viseu, Portugal, Dão
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
Cooperative of around 2,000 grower members at Loureiro de Silgueiros, founded in 1962 and crushing its first harvest in 1964.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 18:00, closed at weekends.
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
Cooperative of around 2,000 grower members at Loureiro de Silgueiros, founded in 1962 and crushing its first harvest in 1964.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 18:00, closed at weekends.
Ferreira dos Reis family estate at Oliveira de Barreiros. Jorge Ferreira dos Reis, a doctor and oenologist, replanted mainly to Touriga Nacional in 2003 across 15 hectares.
Tasting: Tastings and cellar visits at the quinta by arrangement.
Thirty-seven hectares at São Cipriano, six kilometres from Viseu, bought by the Oliveira family in 2001 who restored the stone buildings and built a modern adega.
Tasting: Tastings, cellar visits and an events hall on the estate, six kilometres from central Viseu.
Estate in the village of Sabugosa bought in 2002 by Jaime de Almeida Barros and fully replanted; in the 1940s its wine was supplied to the Portuguese embassy in Washington.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the quinta in Sabugosa by arrangement.
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...
