Quinta da Silveira is a family-owned Douro estate in the Vilariça Valley, founded in 1851, with about 70 hectares of vineyards across Silveira and the nearby Quinta do Tourão. Danish port specialist Portvinsoplevelser says it is the estate’s only importer of port into Denmark, where it sells Silveira’s tawnies and white port.
The estate’s website traces Quinta da Silveira to 1851, when António Caetano d’Oliveira, born in Torre de Moncorvo, bought land in the Vilariça Valley. The property passed through his descendants, including the Oliveira Martinho family. Manuel Oliveira Martinho took charge in 1979 and restructured the vineyards and the winery. Three siblings later set up the family company Sociedade Agrícola Vale da Vilariça, Lda to run the property, with Manuel Maria Oliveira Martinho as manager. Quinta do Tourão, about 6 km to the north, is managed with Silveira, giving around 70 hectares of vines planted with Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Amarela and Sousão. Winemaking is by Manuel Maria Martinho and Rodrigo Martins.
The Nordic link is Denmark. Danish port specialist Portvinsoplevelser lists Quinta da Silveira under its own imports (“egen import”) and states that it is the only importer of Quinta da Silveira port into the Danish market. Its importer page says the family once sold grapes and wine to Symington but now uses the whole harvest for its own wines and ports, split roughly half and half between table wine and port. Its shop sells Silveira 10-year tawny (DKK 259), 20-year tawny (DKK 495), Old Dry White (DKK 169), a rose port and a tasting box (DKK 1,257), and it runs port tastings and trips that include visits to the estate.
Denmark has no retail monopoly, and much of its fine port reaches drinkers through small specialist importers with exclusive rights to one house, not through a tender system. Silveira, a small family estate that stopped selling grapes to Symington and now bottles under its own name, is a typical example: a single exclusive Danish partner that combines a web shop, tastings and wine tourism to the Douro.
Sources: Portvinsoplevelser – Quinta da Silveira (importer page and shop); quintadasilveira.pt. Checked 20 October 2026.
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