Alentejo

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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”.

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.