VISIT US
Trav. Paulo Jorge 9
1300-444 Belém, Lisboa
OPENING TIMES
Tuesday – Friday
10:00-13:00 and 14:00-16:00
Saturday
10:00 – 13:00
CELLAR TOURS
11h-11h45 RSVP
Max 5 persons/tour during COVID. Please call us or send email
A Family Winery in the Heart of Lisbon
Taste wines in our cellar door without prior reservation or book a cellar tour & tasting, to learn more about wine and winemaking.
Adega Belém Urban Winery brings winemaking right to the heart of Lisbon. Employing mainly low intervention production methods, we produce red, white, rosé and bubbly wines from Portuguese native grape varietals grown in the greater Lisbon area.
We are a family winery and do almost everything ourselves – from picking grapes, transporting them to the winery, making the wine, bottling, labeling and selling in our shop in Belém. Depending on the year, our annual production ranges between 12,000 and 16,000 bottles.
Looking forward to your visit. Abraços, beijinhos, à bientôt und bis bald!
Catarina, David, Ana Lula, Sofia and Lili
Experimental & quality driven oenology
We work with winegrowers from Lisbon, Alenquer and Palmela to produce handcrafted wines in small batches. Our production is based on principles of low intervention, spontaneous fermentation and varietal character – while employing sophisticated cellar equipment to make sure that our wines get interesting and balanced character profiles. You can buy these wines exclusively at our shop in Belém or online in the shop section of this website.
Tastings, Events & Cellar Tours
Taste our wines by the glass or as flyers of 3, 5 or 7. Or combine your tastings with a selection of olives, artisan cheese, cured meat or Iberian chouriço. Or join one of our open house events, take a tasting class to deepen your knowledge and understanding of wine, or tailor-make your own event and wine experience.
Sextas na Adega - Fridays at the Winery
Every other week, we organise a social event with tastings, petiscos, a wine quiz, and updates for the current vintage...
ATTENTION: LIMITED TO 25 PEOPLE. Value 15 Eur. Mandatory reservation – admin@adegabelem.com or 213630707 (during office hours).
Due to rapidly increasing COVID numbers in the Lisbon area, we hope to be back on 30 Oct. More news soon.
Tejo Atlantic terroir
Arinto, Moscatel Graúdo, Encruzado, Alvarinho, Touriga Nacional, Alicante Bouschet, Castelão, Aragonez — our wines are made from native varietals grown under integrated vineyard management. Planted by local vine gardeners in the Atlantic climate of the Lisbon and Setúbal wine regions, our grapes benefit from an extended grape-ripening period, due to the unique combination of long hours of sunshine and the cooling effect of both the Atlantic Ocean and Tagus River.
From vineyard to winery
Our grapes are handpicked in the freshness of the early morning hours and the bunches are cleaned one by one, to eliminate moldy grapes. We have a small lorry, a Toyota Dyna 150, almost as old as we are (but in much better shape) that can carry 100 boxes of grapes to the winery. It takes between 15 minutes and an hour for the grapes to reach the winery in Belém.
The magic of winecraft
Once arrived at the winery, the grapes are dropped into our destemmer and the mash is pumped straight to the fermentation tanks or, for the whites, into the wine press. We use a vertical press which allows smooth and slow pressings. The run-off juices or wines are separated from the press and kept apart. Half of our red and white wines age in lite toast French oak barrels.
Magic in a bottle - made with love (and grapes as well)
You can taste and buy our wines directly at the winery in Belém or use our online shop with preferential delivery rates for Portugal and many European countries.
Two enthusiastic lecturers who, once in Switzerland, enriched my knowledge of the world of wine, finally creating their own winery. Am looking forward to tasting the results of their global experience.
We look forward to joining Catarina e David at Adega Belém Urban Winery for the quality of their wines, their convivial company and their encouragement of scholarly exchange!
L’Adega Belém Urban Winery de David et Catarina est un lieu de culture, de plaisir et d’expérimentation qui plaira aussi bien aux œnophiles aguerris qu’aux novices amateurs. Santé !
A Adega de Belém, por mares nunca dantes navegados! A Catarina e o David não podiam ter feito menos do que uma adega do local de onde partiram as caravelas portuguesas levando o vinhos e culturas. Vinhos artesanais, com cunho pessoal, que fazem as delícias "das mais desvairadas gentes" que por Belém têm passado!
Catarina, Grande mulher, grandes missões, grande adegueira e grande enologa - que o bom espirito do Sado te faça igualmente brilhar no Tejo!
How to get there
WALK
We are at 5 minutes walking distance from Belém train station, 2 minutes from Altinho (MAAT) tram stop, 10 minutes from the Belém Jeronimos Monastery, or about an hour, depending on walking speed, from Lisbon City Centre, Cais de Sodre, along the beautiful Tejo river walk.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Train Cais de Sodre-Cascais, get off at Belém Train station. Eléctrico 15E or 18 E (Yellow tram) get off at Altinho (MAAT).
CAR
There is no parking space available directly at the winery. If you come by car, please use any of the nearby public parking lots, all within easy walking distance: Travessa dos Escaleres (next to Cordoaria), Electricity Museum (next to MAAT), or any of the car parks next to Jeronimos Monastery.