Douro Red

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.)

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.