Touriga Franca

Home of Nacional — the ungrafted two-hectare parcel whose vintage Ports are among the rarest wines on earth.

Birthplace of Barca-Velha — released only in exceptional years, Portugal's most mythic table wine.

A barrel-ageing cellar designed by Pritzker laureate Álvaro Siza Vieira — white, low and serene in the schist hills.

Dona Antónia Ferreira's grandest quinta, where single-quinta Vintage Port is still foot-trodden in granite lagares.

A 400-hectare river estate with a boutique manor hotel, private jetty and Port lodge on the Douro's most sweeping bend.

A Relais & Châteaux wine house with an 18th-century chapel, museum and terraced vineyards over the Pinhão river.

Dow's historic heart in Pinhão, with an original 19th-century lodge and Pedro Lemos' acclaimed restaurant among the vines.

Dirk Niepoort's gravity winery embedded into the schist, cradle of Batuta, Charme and legendary Garrafeira Ports.

A family estate on the riverbank with guest houses, the Cozinha da Clara restaurant and Port aged in its own cellars.

Croft's 'jewel of the Douro' — a riverside Port quinta where guests still tread grapes in granite lagares each September.

Sandeman's modern Douro winery with a terrace above the Pinhão bend and robotic lagares beside traditional granite.

One of the Douro's largest historic estates, now a quiet wine hotel with its own olive groves and riverside cantina.

An organic family quinta at the meeting of the Tedo and Douro rivers, with a bed & breakfast among the vines.

Home of Kopke, the oldest Port house, famed for its very old Colheita tawnies from a library stretching back decades.

Fonseca's Távora valley quinta — terraced vines, foot treading and the source of Guimaraens single-quinta Vintages.