Terraced vineyards falling steeply to the Douro river in late afternoon light

A family vineyard in the Douro, since 1934

Oldvines,steepterraces,andatablethatseatstwelve.

Quinta da Pedreira is forty hectares of schist above the river at Pinhão, farmed by the same family for four generations. We make two wines, host a handful of visitors a week, and would rather you stayed for lunch.

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Around six hundred visitors a year, most of them sent by someone who came before.

Visits

Fourwaystospendadayhere.Noneoftheminahurry.

We are a working farm rather than a visitor centre, so every visit is led by someone who also prunes. Groups are eight at most, and the dogs come along.

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Four glasses of red wine on a worn wooden table in a stone cellar

The cellar tasting

Ninety minutes in the old adega with four wines, one of them drawn from the cask, and bread from the village. The easiest way to start.

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A narrow path between dry stone terraces of old vines climbing a hillside

Walk the terraces

Two hours on foot with our viticulturist, from the river up to the old vines at four hundred metres. Boots, water, and a slow lunch after.

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Hands lifting a basket of dark grapes during the harvest

A harvest day

Late September into October. You pick with the crew in the morning, tread grapes in the granite lagar in the evening, and eat with everyone at the long table.

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A whitewashed stone room with a linen bed and a window onto the vineyard

Two nights in the press house

The old press house is now two rooms with a shared kitchen and a terrace over the river. Breakfast is left at the door; the rest of the day is yours.

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The quinta

Ninetyyears,fourgenerations,thesamefortyhectares.

Nothing here was planned as a business. A grandfather bought a hillside, his children rebuilt its walls, and the rest followed one vintage at a time.

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  1. 1934

    A grandfather and eleven hectares

    António Pedreira bought the lower slopes with money from ten years in Brazil. The grapes went to the port houses downriver, as everyone's did.

  2. 1971

    The terraces rebuilt by hand

    A winter of floods took out half the walls. The family and six neighbours rebuilt them in dry schist over three years, and those walls are the ones you walk on.

  3. 1998

    The first bottle under our own name

    After sixty years of selling grapes, a red made from the oldest parcel, four thousand bottles, sold mostly to friends and one restaurant in Porto.

  4. 2012

    The press house becomes two rooms

    The granite press had not been used since 1971. It became the sitting room of the first guest rooms, with the beam still across the ceiling.

  5. 2026

    Fourth generation, same ground

    Two of us run it now. We still make only two wines, still pick by hand, and still stop for lunch at one.

The year

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Tastings and stays

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Every visit is booked in advance because someone has to come down from the vines to meet you. Children are welcome and pay nothing. Prices include the wine you drink and the lunch, where there is one.

The cellar

€35per person

Ninety minutes

Four wines in the old adega, one from the cask, with bread, olive oil and the cheese from Alijó.

  • Four wines, one from cask
  • Bread, oil and cheese
  • Groups of eight at most
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A long wooden table set for lunch on a terrace overlooking the vineyard

The terraces

€70per person

A half day

The walk to the old vines with our viticulturist, the cellar tasting, and lunch at the long table.

  • Two hours on the terraces
  • The full cellar tasting
  • Lunch at the long table
  • A bottle to take home
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Two nights

€190per person

Press house, two sharing

One of the two rooms in the press house, breakfast at the door, and the terraces tasting on the first afternoon.

  • Two nights, breakfast included
  • The terraces visit
  • A kitchen and a terrace over the river
  • Dinner on request
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Questions

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The road is real, the dogs are friendly, and there is always somewhere to sit in the shade. Anything not answered here, ask by email and one of us will reply.

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Harvest pickers with baskets working a steep terrace as the sun comes up over the valley

Late September

Theharvestistheoneweekwecannotdescribe.

Eight days, sometimes ten, of picking from first light and treading after dark. We take a few visitors each day, feed them at the long table, and send them home tired. Places go by July.

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Rated 4.9 across 212 visits