DOC Dão15 haSantar
Fifteen hectares of vines, olives, orchards and ponds at Santar, on granitic sandy soil above the Dão river, long known as the house of the village's visiting schoolmistresses.
Tasting: Visits to the vineyards, adega and grounds at Santar by arrangement.
DOC DãoTouriga Nacional15 haFounded 1997Santar
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.
Tasting: Open daily 09:00 to 19:00, with tastings and a wine shop at the adega built in 2000.
DOC DãoFounded 1989Global WinesCarregal do Sal
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
DOC DãoFounded 2011Carlos LucasWinemaker Carlos LucasCarregal do Sal
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
DOC DãoCarregal do Sal
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.
DOC DãoTouriga Nacional, Encruzado20 haUnião Comercial da BeiraCarregal do Sal
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.