The Amorim Family’s Generations of Portugal Influence

The Amorim family has been intimately connected to the world of wine since 1870 when they first started producing cork enclosures for the Port wine cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia. More than 150 years later, they have become one of the most influential wine families now also owning a historic winery that dates to the Romans.

The Winery History

The story of the Taboadella Winery is tracked back to 1255 when it served as a Villae, an upper rural class estate that consisted of a main house, a wine cellar, and other various supporting structures as well as vines planted on the site. In 1999, the Amorim family planted new vines and built a winery.

Taboadella Winery is in Castenda in the Taboadela Valley, a subregion of the Dão region of Portugal. I’ve only scratched the surface of regions in Portugal including Dão in 2020 as well as the neighboring Alentejo in 2019.  The Dão region is surrounded by 5 mountain ranges, produces 5 different soils, and is located about 90 minutes to the Southeast of Portugal. It is between 200 meters to 1,000 meters above sea level in the Serra da Estrela, the high mountain range to the south and east of the region.

A Portugal Vineyard at Sunrise

The winery consists of 42 hectares of vines between the coast and the mountains resulting in a unique climate and soils with different elevations and altitudes. They produce a wide