This estate that was known in the past as “Quinta do Casal de Celeirós”, has an area of 15 hectares surrounded by a schist wall.
It’s an historic Quinta with references in the end of the XIX century that considered it as a “Model Property”. It’s also mentioned historically as not having suffered the terrible plague of phylloxera. In 1877 Henry Vizetelly, author of “Facts about Port and Madeira” (Ward, Lock, 1880) drew the attention to the fact that this property hadn’t been affected by the plague and in 1886 the Viscount of Vilarinho de São Romão names it as a truly Model Property and writes: “it’s the only example that we know of a vineyard that didn’t suffer with the plague of phylloxera”.
It’s also historically recognized as being the first property in the Douro to admit women to tread grapes. Henry Vizetelly wrote: "The young women skillfully gathered their garments up around them. When all was duly adjusted they sprang into the lagar, and, delighted with their task, danced for a time among the grapes with the frenzy if not the grace of a troop of wild Bacchanals. The sight was certainly amusing, although the proceeding was, perhaps, not exactly a decorous one."
The average altitude is 500m and its vineyards have an Eastern exposure. The average age of the vines is 25 years.
This beautiful property follows the panoramic road from the village of Pinhão to Sabrosa, next to Celeirós. With an altitude of 550 meters and slopes facing East and South, the main area (77%) is occupied by white grape varieties, being the remaining area planted with Touriga Nacional in terraces.
Today we have the biggest single parcel of Viosinho in the Douro (and maybe in Portugal) with 7,2 hectares planted.
The first harvest we did at Confradeiro was in 1991. In 2006 we totally replanted this property.
Quinta da Abelheira is located in the plateau south of the village of Favaios. It's in the family hands since 1978, and its grapes were vinified in the traditional "lagares" of Quinta dos Muros until 1994, when we finally started working at the new Quinta do Portal winery.
It has 17 hectares under vineyards where Moscatel is the most plantes variety. At Abelheira we also have our experimental plots with some grapes not so common to the region. The altitude averages 550m with a maximum of 600m.
