Dão is a Portuguese wine region situated in the Região Demarcada do Dão with the Dão-Lafões sub region of the Centro, Portugal. It is one of the oldest established wine regions in Portugal. Dão wine is produced in a mountainous region with a temperate climate, in the area of the Rio Mondego and Dão rivers in the north central region of Portugal. The region became a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) appellation in 1908. The Dão region is the origin of the Touriga Nacional vine that is the principal component of port wine.
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Dão is a wine region, Portugal. We track 553 of its wines in stock at 31 shops, from 34 wine houses, from € 1.45; mostly red, white.
- Country
- Portugal
- In our wines
- Touriga Nacional, Encruzado, Tempranillo, Mencía, Malvasia
- Styles
- Red 299 · White 211 · Rosé 31 · Sparkling 4 · Fortified 3 · Orange 1
- Prices
- from € 1.45 · median € 16.75 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +2.4 °C · 2,072 GDD · 49 % rain |
| 2025 | 19 | € 3.84 | € 13.45 | – | hot +1.7 °C · 2,167 GDD · 93 % rain |
| 2024 | 43 | € 5.62 | € 14.99 | – | warm +0.7 °C · 1,942 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2023 | 58 | € 4.26 | € 17.57 | – | hot +1.4 °C · 2,095 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 2022 | 69 | € 3.30 | € 14.99 | 92.5 (2 wines) | hot +1.7 °C · 2,176 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2021 | 50 | € 5.90 | € 16.63 | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,766 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 2020 | 39 | € 5.13 | € 15.69 | 93.0 (1 wine) | averagewet +0.3 °C · 1,857 GDD · 152 % rain |
| 2019 | 33 | € 4.15 | € 21.00 | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,761 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2018 | 19 | € 8.24 | € 18.70 | – | averagedry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,885 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2017 | 20 | € 5.90 | € 20.64 | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.3 °C · 2,084 GDD · 45 % rain |
| 2016 | 10 | € 7.50 | € 25.14 | – | averagewetdry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,837 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 2015 | 11 | € 13.64 | € 22.25 | 94.0 (1 wine) | warm +0.5 °C · 1,915 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2014 | 8 | € 16.04 | € 26.21 | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,797 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2013 | 4 | € 44.93 | € 54.49 | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,816 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 2012 | 4 | € 11.22 | € 21.61 | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,648 GDD · 117 % rain |
| 2011 | 4 | € 23.26 | € 137.13 | – | hotdry +1.1 °C · 2,030 GDD · 70 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.7 °C · 1,945 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2009 | 1 | € 312.49 | € 312.49 | – | averagedry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,849 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.0 °C · 1,580 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,706 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 2,020 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.0 °C · 2,010 GDD · 73 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,768 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,819 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,648 GDD · 117 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,720 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.9 °C · 1,604 GDD · 135 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,761 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,764 GDD · 118 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,868 GDD · 117 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,718 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 1995 | 1 | € 72.14 | € 72.14 | – | hotdry +1.2 °C · 2,063 GDD · 46 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.9 °C · 1,611 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.4 °C · 1,498 GDD · 176 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,733 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.4 °C · 1,891 GDD · 53 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.0 °C · 2,027 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | hotdrydry harvest +1.4 °C · 2,107 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.9 °C · 1,603 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.6 °C · 1,926 GDD · 119 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cooldry −0.5 °C · 1,724 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 1985 | 1 | € 63.01 | € 63.01 | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.3 °C · 1,860 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 1984 | 1 | € 58.00 | € 58.00 | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,673 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.8 °C · 1,636 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.5 °C · 1,686 GDD · 81 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Dão's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
Casa da Passarella 22 · Quinta de Lemos 17 · Quinta dos Carvalhais 15 · Caminhos Cruzados 13 · Adega Cooperativa Vila Nova de Tazem 13 · Quinta dos Roques 10 · Textura 10 · M.O.B. 9 · Niepoort 9 · James Brook Wine Limited 8 · Soito Wines 8 · Revela 6 · Quinta da Fata 5 · Titular 5 · Grace Campbell 3 · Quinta da Pellada 3