Quinta do Fôjo is a traditional, family run winery located in the Douro valley in Northern Portugal, a UNESCO World Heritage region.

Quinta do Fôjo is run by Elisabete Saraiva.

Nearby lies Lamego, where the first king of Portugal was crowned in the 12th century together with Pinhão - at the heart of the local wine growing industries. For two generations, Elisabete’s family stood at the centre of its civic life; both her father and her grandfather led the municipal council of Pinhão, serving as mayors of the town across a period that reshaped the Douro and its place in the world. Quinta do Fôjo is the agricultural expression of a family whose connection to this region is as meaningful as the vines.

The estate sits above Rio Bom on the schist slopes that have defined Douro winemaking for centuries. The family's history here is founded on Port wine; today the estate also produces table wines made in collaboration with selected Douro winemakers as well as its own olive oil. The wines are released under the Barderas label - named in recognition of the female influence that has led the quinta through to present times.

Quinta do Fôjo remains a working agricultural property - small in scale, deliberately so - and a place where the rhythms of the wine year are still visible to anyone who visits. Elisabete hosts the tastings personally. Her wine education rests between two locations. At the estate she works with the family's land and the winemakers who shape the Quinta do Fôjo wines; in London she continues her studies with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and travels regularly to taste examples from of the world's wines from London’s distributors. Her breadth of experience is unusual for a small Douro estate.

Visitors to Quinta do Fôjo come for a private experience, not a tour-bus stop. Tastings are small, considered and unhurried. The estate also offers a limited number of rooms for those who wish to extend their visit and see the Douro at its own pace. Whatever the form of your visit, you are received as a guest of the family.