Douro Valley

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

Century-old Vinha Maria Teresa field blend and an infinity pool by Eduardo Souto de Moura hovering over the river.

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

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.

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.

A whole mountain of terraces facing Pinhão, crowned by a 360° summit house — the oldest wine company in Portugal.

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

Churchill's north-facing estate whose old vines give some of the most elegant single-quinta Vintage Ports.

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.

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

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

Founded by Dona Antónia Ferreira's family; a schist-clad modern wine hotel and gravity cellar by Francisco Vieira de Campos.

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

One of the first estates to bottle under its own name, now a wine hotel with sleep-in wine barrels among the vines.

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