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.
Address: Cumieira, São João de Lourosa, 3500-887 Viseu, Portugal, Dão
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 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.
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.
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.
Amorim family estate on a triangular plateau at Silvã de Cima with 40 hectares of vines, a rock-cut Roman lagar and a contemporary adega facing the Serra da Estrela.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 11:30 to 16:00. Roman lagar, vineyard and cellar visits with the Barrel Top Walk and Wine House tastings, Sunday walks, harvest picnics and paired Douro and Dão flights.
Signature wines: Taboadella Villae, Taboadella Grande Villae
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...
