Mortágua producer set up in 1991 by Nuno Cancela de Abreu, fourth generation of a family with farm records back to 1884, working Quinta da Giesta in the Besteiros sub-region.
Signature wines: Quinta da Giesta
Address: Rua Quinta da Gandarada 14, 3450-335 Mortágua, Portugal, Dão
Pereira de Melo family project at Quinta do Coladinho in Santa Comba Dão, making small quantities of Dão wine from a property the family has held for generations.
Tasting: Visits to the family property at Santa Comba Dão by arrangement.
Pereira de Melo family project at Quinta do Coladinho in Santa Comba Dão, making small quantities of Dão wine from a property the family has held for generations.
Tasting: Visits to the family property at Santa Comba Dão by arrangement.
Álvaro de Castro inherited Quinta da Pellada in 1980 and released the first wine under the Quinta de Saes label in 1989. Pellada, Saes and Outeiro are three separate estates on one elevation near Vila Nova de Tazem, farmed and bottled by the same house from the cellar at Pinhanços, which is why the Saes wines are listed here. His daughter Maria joined in 2001 and records of Pellada reach back to 1527.
Tasting: Cellar visits Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00 by arrangement at Pinhanços.
Signature wines: Quinta da Pellada, Quinta de Saes, Pape
Seia estate held by the Sacadura Botte family since the seventeenth century, 100 hectares in all. João de Sande Sacadura Botte Corte Real pushed for the 1908 demarcation of the Dão.
Tasting: Open daily 10:00 to 18:00 for visits and tastings.
Adega at Lagarinhos, in the Serra da Estrela sub-region, established in 1892 and one of the houses behind the 1908 demarcation of the Dão. Old vines kept, cellar modernised.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Signature wines: Casa da Passarella O Enólogo, Casa da Passarella Villa Oliveira
Family project started in 2018 on the Serra da Estrela slopes, farming 22 hectares organically across seven parcels at Vila Nova de Tazem and Penalva do Castelo.
Tasting: Visits, tastings and wine tourism at the estate on the Serra da Estrela slopes, by arrangement.
Casa Américo's Gouveia property inside the Serra da Estrela natural park, and the source of the Vinha de Púcaros Touriga Nacional Resíduo Zero, which the producer states is the first Iberian wine made from grapes with no pesticide residues.
Tasting: Visits by prior booking at the Quinta do Paço vineyard inside the Serra da Estrela natural park.
Signature wines: Vinha de Púcaros
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...