Wine Tasting in Sintra
The unique characteristics of Sintra’s Colares wines are due to the combination of grape varieties, soil, and temperate and humid climate in the summer, and to the fact that the vineyards are installed on a sandy ground or dug deep down into hard soil
Wine Tasting in Sintra
A variety of small wineries, adegas, with excellent, price winning wines are relatively close to Casa do Valle. Many offer visits and tastings that last anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours, depending on the length of the visit and the quantity of wines tasted.
All of the vineyards and cellars that we suggest for you to visit are accessible by public transportation and have various beautiful hikes and bike routes around them to make it a full or a half day outing.
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Sintra’s Colares wines
Colares (Sintra, Portugal) is one of the oldest demarcated regions in the country, the westernmost of Continental Europe, and the smallest still-wine producing region of Portugal.
The unique characteristics of Sintra’s Colares wines are due to the combination of grape varieties, soil, and temperate and humid climate in the summer, and to the fact that the vineyards are installed on a sandy ground, yet dug deep down, into hard soil.
The sandy soils protected the vines, and still do, from phylloxera when the rest of Europe and Portugal was hit by the plague, which is why the Colares vineyards of the Ramisco and Malvasia de Colares grape variety, are among the oldest in Portugal, dating back from 1255. The DOC Colares wines are still not grafted onto American rootstock.
Visits and tastings must be scheduled ahead of time for all vineyards.