The Amorim family have been involved in wine since 1870, when they first negotiated sales of cork to the Porto Wine Cellars, in Vila Nova de Gaia. Today they are one of the most renowned family groups in Portugal with businesses in many countries and in many different lines of activity. Since 1999, the fourth generation of the family is now involved in wine, through the capable hands of Luisa Amorim, working in renowned Quintas where wines and vineyards have ancestral roots of cultural importance in the Douro, at Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo and in the Dão, at the Taboadella estate, creating wines of extraordinary quality, with a sense of place. 

The place of Taboadella – heritage of a Roman “villae” with medieval historical references dating back to 1255 – boasts 42 hectares of vineyards, surrounded by a forest of pine, oak and chestnut trees. Here, the past and future complement each other.

In Silvã de Cima, next to the Taboadella vineyard, we find a wine press built in an ancient monolithic boulder, one of the oldest vestiges of winemaking in the Dão region.

Taboadella’s wines derive from a historic terroir, which has a unique genetic heritage ensuring slow maturation of the grapes and leaving a mark of elegance, giving rise to classic wines of great complexity and freshness, characteristic of an identity that only Taboadella can confer. Here, the past and future complement each other. The wines originate in the vineyard and the landscape, with patient and special care that has enabled us to recover from the past the essence of nature and project great wines into the future with a remarkable typicality maintaining the ancestral character of the Dão region.