Quinta do Soito started as an agritourism unit; two schoolteachers turned it into Soito Wines in 2013, farming seven hectares of vines plus the nearby Quinta do Cabeço da Roda.
Signature wines: Soito Reserva
Address: Quinta do Soito, Tibalde, Fornos de Maceira Dão, 3530-071 Mangualde, Portugal
The Monteiro Albuquerque family has farmed here since the late nineteenth century; the fifth generation started bottling in 2006 and released the first wine, a 2010 red, in 2013.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:30 to 17:30; other days, weekends and public holidays by prior booking.
Signature wines: Menino Afonso, Avô António Reserva Encruzado, Avó Fernanda Branco
The Monteiro Albuquerque family has farmed here since the late nineteenth century; the fifth generation started bottling in 2006 and released the first wine, a 2010 red, in 2013.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:30 to 17:30; other days, weekends and public holidays by prior booking.
Signature wines: Menino Afonso, Avô António Reserva Encruzado, Avó Fernanda Branco
Silgueiros estate whose top wines carry the names of family forebears, Dona Georgina, Dona Santana and Dona Louise, and which houses the Mesa de Lemos restaurant.
Tasting: Visits and tastings at the estate; the Mesa de Lemos restaurant serves Friday and Saturday by prior booking.
Signature wines: Dona Georgina, Dona Santana, Dona Louise
Small family estate on an organically farmed vineyard at 365 metres above the Dão river, bottling numbered, hand-sealed reds from Alfrocheiro, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Jaen.
Tasting: Vineyard and cellar visit with a three-wine tasting, with wines available to buy at the quinta.
Silgueiros estate with documented viticulture going back more than a century. Grapes went to the local cooperative from 1964 to 1998; the family began bottling its own labels in 1999.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 10:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Signature wines: Quinta da Falorca T-Nac, Quinta da Falorca Garrafeira
Cooperative of around 2,000 grower members at Loureiro de Silgueiros, founded in 1962 and crushing its first harvest in 1964.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 18:00, closed at weekends.
Ferreira dos Reis family estate at Oliveira de Barreiros. Jorge Ferreira dos Reis, a doctor and oenologist, replanted mainly to Touriga Nacional in 2003 across 15 hectares.
Tasting: Tastings and cellar visits at the quinta by arrangement.
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...
