Oliveira do Hospital estate begun in 1987, now about eight hectares including century-old vines, split between the home quinta and Quinta de Santo António at 470 to 550 metres.
Signature wines: Vale do Cesto, Serra d'Alva, Muros Vadios, Alva Magna
Address: Rua do Cortinhal 39, 3405-305 Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal, Dão
Three hectares of stony clay-limestone soil on the left bank of the Alva at 200 to 400 metres, planted to Baga and Encruzado in 2019 and worked with spontaneous fermentation.
Tasting: Family wine tourism project with vineyard and cellar visits by arrangement.
Three hectares of stony clay-limestone soil on the left bank of the Alva at 200 to 400 metres, planted to Baga and Encruzado in 2019 and worked with spontaneous fermentation.
Tasting: Family wine tourism project with vineyard and cellar visits by arrangement.
Family estate at Abrunhosa do Mato with 35 hectares of vines, three quarters red. Began bottling varietal reds in 1996 and a barrel-fermented Encruzado in 1998.
Tasting: Cellar and vineyard visits Monday to Friday 10:00 to 17:30 by prior booking, with tastings of two to four whites and three to five reds, and meals in the tasting room for groups of 10 or more.
Signature wines: Quinta dos Roques Encruzado, Quinta dos Roques Touriga Nacional, Quinta dos Roques Garrafeira
Nelas family estate whose vines sit at an average 450 metres on granite and quartzite soils, vinified without new wood in a deliberately classical Dão style.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Adega at Quinta da Teixuga in Carvalhal Redondo, restarted by Paulo Santos in 2012 and now part of Grupo Terras e Terroir alongside Quinta da Pacheca in the Douro.
Tasting: Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 18:00, with cellar visits and three-wine tastings at 11:00, 14:30 and 16:30, vineyard walks, lunch pairings and a wine-and-chocolate tasting.
Vinhos Imperfeitos, the Nelas project Carlos Raposo founded in 2018 after training in Bordeaux and Burgundy and seven years making wine with Dirk Niepoort in the Douro.
Tasting: Tastings and cellar visits by arrangement with the producer at Nelas.
Signature wines: Vinhos Imperfeitos
Small Vilar Seco estate with 6.5 hectares of vines on a south-facing granite slope, restructured in 1999 with Dão varieties and still using its old granite lagares.
Tasting: Visits Monday to Friday 15:00 to 20:00; the estate also lets rooms and one-bedroom apartments in the nineteenth-century granite house.
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...
