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.
Address: Oliveira de Barreiros, 3500-892 Viseu, Portugal, Dão
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
