Producers

A winemaker nicknamed “Mr Alvarinho” for his detailed work with the grape, including skin-contact and barrel-aged versions such as Muros de Melgaço.

A family estate with famous gardens. Its Casal Garcia brand is one of the best-selling Vinho Verdes in the world.

A Lima valley estate that showed how serious and age-worthy Loureiro can be. Now part of the Esporão group.

A family estate in Melgaço that began in 1988 with three hectares of Alvarinho and still focuses on the grape. Its main label is Foral de Melgaço, including an Old Vines bottling.

A family pioneer in Melgaço that launched one of the first Alvarinho brands of the area in 1982. Known for pure, mineral Alvarinho in many styles, from fresh to oak-aged and sparkling.

A historic family estate in the northeast making reds and whites with real local character, at the cool edge of Trás-os-Montes.

Casa Agrícola Roboredo Madeira, a family company that has farmed around Almendra in the Douro Superior since the end of the 19th century. It makes organic wine and award-winning olive oil.

The house of A.A. Ferreira, linked to Dona Antónia Ferreira, the 19th-century businesswoman who shaped the Douro. Makes Barca Velha, first released in 1952, Portugal’s most legendary dry red. Part of Sogrape.

Among the very oldest Port companies. Launched the first Rosé Port, Croft Pink.

A family estate in the Baixo Corgo whose Quinta da Gaivosa helped lead the Douro’s move from Port to unfortified wine in the early 1990s. Domingos Alves de Sousa runs it with his son Tiago, who makes the wines.

A Symington family house known for a drier, firmer style of Vintage Port, with fruit from Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira.

Founded in 2007 by winemakers João Portugal Ramos and José Maria Soares Franco, who was for many years the winemaker of Barca Velha. Vineyards in the Cima Corgo and the Douro Superior, where it built up its Castelo Melhor estate.

A Fladgate Partnership house known for rich, opulent Vintage Ports and the popular Bin 27 Reserve.

A Symington family house famous for rich Vintage Ports and fine aged Tawnies. Quinta dos Malvedos is its home vineyard.

Regarded as the oldest Port house. Especially known for Colheita Ports, including rare White Colheitas.

Founded in 2013 by Luís Seabra, formerly Niepoort’s winemaker, working small old-vine parcels in the Douro, Vinho Verde and Dão with minimal intervention. The Xisto (schist) and Granito (granite) ranges are named after their soils.

A family Port house of Dutch origin. Under Dirk Niepoort it became a pioneer of elegant dry Douro wines (Redoma, Batuta, Charme) and later expanded into Bairrada and Dão.

An independent family Port house founded in Vila Nova de Gaia in 1918 by Manoel Domingues Poças Júnior and still owned by the same family. It makes Port, especially aged tawnies and Colheitas, and Douro wines.

A joint venture between the Symington family and Bruno Prats, formerly of Bordeaux’s Château Cos d’Estournel, formed in 1999. Its Chryseia is one of the Douro’s benchmark reds; Prazo de Roriz and Post Scriptum are its other wines.

A family estate above the river known for old-vine field blends such as Vinha Maria Teresa and Vinha da Ponte, and for a famous infinity pool view of the valley.

A single estate above the Pinhão valley. Its Nacional Vintage Port comes from a small plot of ungrafted vines and is one of the rarest wines in the world.

The last great estate built by Dona Antónia Ferreira, and for decades the source of Barca Velha. Its own red is one of the Douro’s benchmarks.

A historic family estate near Régua, once owned by Dona Antónia Ferreira, now known for modern dry reds and whites and a wine hotel.

A historic riverside estate owned by the Amorim family since 1999. Its winery building is dated 1764, and its name comes from a chapel built to protect the crews of the rabelo boats that carried wine down the Douro.

Known for its Quinta da Ervamoira in the Côa valley and for influential 1980s research into the Douro’s best grape varieties. Also famous for its early-20th-century poster art.

Created by royal charter under the Marquis of Pombal, the same year the Douro was demarcated. Owns several quintas including Quinta das Carvalhas in Pinhão.

A winemaker and producer working in the Douro Superior, where Castello d’Alba is his best-known brand, and in the Beira Interior, where he makes the Beyra wines. (Madeira is his surname; the wines aren’t from the island.)

Famous for “The Don”, the caped silhouette that is one of wine’s oldest logos. Now part of Sogrape.

Portugal’s largest family-owned wine company, founded to make Mateus Rosé. Today it owns Casa Ferreirinha, Sandeman, Quinta dos Carvalhais in the Dão and estates in Vinho Verde and the Alentejo.

The family company behind Graham’s, Dow’s, Warre’s and Cockburn’s Port. It also makes Douro wines, including the good-value Altano and, with the Prats family of Bordeaux, Chryseia.

One of the oldest Port houses, part of The Fladgate Partnership. Its Quinta de Vargellas in the Douro Superior anchors famous Vintage Ports. Credited with launching the first modern Late Bottled Vintage.

A Port and Douro wine company first founded in 1780 by a family that has worked in the Douro since the 17th century. Cristiano van Zeller revived the name in 2007 and now makes Douro reds, whites and Ports under it.

The first British Port company, now owned by the Symington family. Known for elegant, fragrant Vintage Ports.

The project of winemaking couple Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, started in 2001. Their Quinta da Manoella in the Pinhão valley has vines more than 100 years old, which go into its Vinhas Velhas field blend.

The best-known sparkling wine house of Távora-Varosa, aging its bottles in cellars carved into granite.

A French-born winemaker of Portuguese descent who returned to his family’s village in the Serra da Estrela in 2010. He rescues small, old field-blend plots on granite and makes fresh, light-handed Dão.

A historic estate in the Serra da Estrela foothills, revived in the 2000s and known for wines from old field-blend vineyards.

One of the Dão’s largest producers, formerly called Dão Sul. Its brands include Cabriz and the historic Casa de Santar estate, a manor at the heart of the Dão with vines documented since the 16th century.

The Dão label of viticulturist and winemaker Nuno Mira do Ó, best known for Encruzado. He is part of the group of producers behind the “New Dão”, and also makes the V Puro wines in Bairrada with João Soares.

Álvaro Castro’s estates at the foot of the Serra da Estrela make some of the Dão’s most celebrated, finely balanced wines.

Sogrape’s Dão estate, home of the long-running Duque de Viseu brand and fine single-variety wines.

A family estate that helped lead the Dão’s quality revival with single-variety Encruzado and Touriga Nacional.

A Dão estate in the foothills of the Serra da Estrela bought by the Amorim family in 2018, with a new winery designed by architect Carlos Castanheira. Known for single-variety Encruzado, Jaen and Alfrocheiro as well as blends.

The neo-Manueline palace hotel in the Buçaco forest has made its own legendary, very long-lived red and white wines for over a century, traditionally served only at its own hotels.

A historic merchant house with a huge cellar of old Bairrada and Dão reds, released decades after the harvest.

Luís Pato’s daughter and her husband make light-touch, biodynamic wines under the motto “authentic wines without make-up”.

A Bairrada icon nicknamed “Mr Baga”. Experimented with taming Baga’s tannins and makes Pé Franco from ungrafted vines planted in sand.

A traditional family estate making long-lived Baga Garrafeiras in old lagares and crisp, bone-dry sparkling wines.

A Bairrada project of winemaker friends Nuno Mira do Ó and João Soares. Its Outrora is a pure Baga from very old vines near Mealhada.

A leading Beira Interior estate working with local grapes such as Síria, Fonte Cal and Rufete on high granite slopes.

The historic cooperative that has kept Colares alive, aging Ramisco and Malvasia in large old wooden vats.

A winery near Torres Vedras built by the Alves family, owners of the salt-cod company Riberalves. The name means “mother’s winery”, a tribute to the family matriarch.

A family company based at Quinta da Boavista in Alenquer, north of Lisbon, and the largest producer of Vinho Regional Lisboa. Most of its wines are exported.

The leading estate of Bucelas, focused on crisp, age-worthy Arinto.

A family estate in the Alenquer hills. Winemaker Sandra Tavares da Silva also co-founded Wine & Soul in the Douro.

Known for elegant Syrah planted from Rhône cuttings, as well as Viognier and Touriga Nacional.

The Oeiras municipality’s project that rescued Carcavelos fortified wine from near extinction.

A historic Colares house founded in 1808 and run today by the Baeta family. It makes Ramisco reds and Malvasia de Colares whites from ungrafted vines in the coastal sand, and holds back old vintages for decades before release.

A family estate on the left bank of the Tejo whose Falcoaria range is a regional benchmark.

A large historic family estate known for good-value Tejo reds and whites, and for its horses.

A large group based in Azeitão, named after the Renaissance Quinta da Bacalhôa. Known for Moscatel, Castelão and a Bordeaux-style red.

One of Portugal’s oldest table-wine producers. Makes Periquita, Lancers rosé and Moscatel de Setúbal with a cellar of 19th-century stock, plus talha wines at its José de Sousa estate in the Alentejo.

The winery of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, named after Évora’s Carthusian monastery. Its Pêra-Manca red is released only in exceptional years and is one of Portugal’s most sought-after wines.

A family company started in 1997 by Alexandre Relvas, with estates around Redondo and São Miguel de Machede. Its brands include Herdade de São Miguel and Ciconia, named after the storks that nest across the Alentejo.

Founded by Danish-American couple Hans and Carrie Jorgensen, who planted their first vines in 1991. They pioneered Syrah in the Alentejo before it was allowed under the regional rules; their daughter Anna has run the estate since 2019.

Founded in 2004 by winemaker António Maçanita and viticulturist David Booth, and based at a medieval manor near Évora. Maçanita is also behind the Azores Wine Company.

Luísa Amorim and Francisco Rêgo’s personal project on an Amorim family estate in the Serra do Mendro hills above Vidigueira, revived from 2017. Its vineyard is planted on terraces, rare in the Alentejo.

A family estate in the Baixo Alentejo combining wine, farming and hospitality, with organic vineyards.

One of the Alentejo’s leading estates, with a large organic vineyard and an ampelographic collection of native grapes. Also owns Quinta do Ameal and Quinta dos Murças in the Douro.

A family estate with British roots dating to the 19th century, whose Alicante Bouschet reds, trodden in lagares, helped make the grape an Alentejo icon.

A Vidigueira estate at the forefront of the talha revival; it hosts an annual amphora wine event.

A partnership between Yorkshire-born financier Howard Bilton and Australian-born winemaker David Baverstock, who spent around three decades at Esporão. Much of the fruit comes from granite slopes near Portalegre; Sonhador means “dreamer”.

A highly influential consultant winemaker turned producer. His Marquês de Borba wines are Alentejo classics.

A family estate working with very old Negra Mole and Crato Branco vines, making light, honest Algarve wines.

A small, innovative house known for precise, very fresh Madeiras made without added caramel colouring.

The Blandy family has made Madeira for more than two centuries. Its Funchal lodge is one of the island’s main visitor attractions.

One of the island’s great old houses, with deep stocks of aged and vintage Madeira.

The island’s largest producer and a major exporter of Madeira.

A family house famous for its huge library of old Frasqueira vintages, some from the 1800s, still sold at its Funchal shop.

Founded by winemaker António Maçanita and partners to revive Pico’s abandoned currais. Its saline whites put the Azores on the international wine map.

The island cooperative behind brands such as Frei Gigante and Terras de Lava, made from growers’ vines in the lava fields.