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.
Address: Avenida 25 de Abril, 3520-113 Santar, Nelas, Portugal, Dão
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
Small-batch estate at Oliveira do Conde between the Serra da Estrela and the Caramulo, on mineral-rich granite, making wine here for close to thirty years.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday 09:30 to 12:30 and 14:30 to 17:00.
Twenty hectares planted in the 1980s by União Comercial da Beira, founded in 1942, with an adega for the estate's own fruit and grapes bought from Dão growers.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, with tastings in the estate's rural house.
Carregal do Sal quinta named for the founders' grandfather Vicente, running tastings, cellar visits, vineyard picnics and food-pairing workshops on the estate.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, closed weekends and public holidays. Tastings, cellar visits, vineyard walks, picnics and pairing workshops.
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.
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...
