Julia Kemper

Julia de Melo Kemper was a lawyer in Lisbon before taking on the renewal of her family’s Quinta do Cruzeiro estate in the Dão at her father’s urging. She began the project in 2003, replanting the vineyards. The vines occupy a mountain-ringed plateau above Mangualde, rooted in granite soils and surrounded by olive trees, pine and native forest.

The vineyards are farmed organically. Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Alfrocheiro and Jaen lead the reds, while Encruzado and Malvasia Fina anchor the whites.