A granite and timber rural hotel at Soutulho outside Viseu, with premium suites, superior and standard doubles and a T1 apartment on a working Dão estate.
The list: Estate tastings and cellar visits alongside a 30-seat dining room that pours the property's own Dão wines
Address: Quinta do Medronheiro, Soutulho, 3510-744 São Cipriano, Viseu, Portugal, Dão
A rural hotel opened in 2013 on a 15-hectare Gouveia estate of vines, olive groves, a cheese dairy and a cellar, with eight standard rooms, a junior suite and a suite plus cottages.
The list: Cellar tours, vineyard visits and tastings of the estate's Dão wines, all by prior booking, plus an on-site wine shop
Rooms on the Quinta do Soito estate at Fornos de Maceira Dão, where the same family runs the cellar, the vineyard trails and the visitor programme.
The list: Visit and tasting, exclusive tasting, vineyard picnic, wine-paired meal and harvest days, all booked through the estate
A three-hectare family estate at Pombeiro da Beira farming regeneratively and vinifying with spontaneous fermentation, offering rooms, a table, a wine shop and cellar visits.
The list: Cellar tours, vineyard visits and tastings of Baga and Encruzado bottlings, with an exhibition space and media library on site
Rooms on the Bica estate at Santa Comba de Seia, on the Seia flank of the region where the Dão vineyards climb towards the Serra da Estrela.
The list: Estate tastings and cellar visits arranged with the owners, plus a shop selling the Quinta da Bica range
A medieval mountain house on the Taboadella estate, restored as an eight-bedroom villa for up to nineteen guests, with a pool and views towards the Serra da Estrela foothills.
The list: Themed tastings at the estate winery, guided tours of Taboadella, a make-your-own-wine session and vineyard walks, all bookable from the house
An 18th-century manor at Penalva do Castelo with 24 rooms, 6 suites and 5 apartments, the only Portuguese house in the Spanish Paradores group, set in its own vineyards and gardens.
The list: Wine-tasting cellar stocked with the Quinta da Ínsua Dão wines made on the estate, plus a gourmet store selling estate wine, Serra da Estrela cheese and Bravo de Esmolfe apples
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...