The table
One menu, written each morning
What arrives from the valley decides what is served. The kitchen writes the card after the delivery, not before.
The table
One menu, written each morning
What arrives from the valley decides what is served. The kitchen writes the card after the delivery, not before.
To begin
Garden, raw and pickled
Whatever came out of the walled garden that morning, some of it cured, some of it an hour old.
From the fire
Hearth-cooked, over vine
One protein, cooked slowly over prunings from the vineyard behind the house.
From the coast
Two hours from the water
Delivered on the morning boat, which is why the card is written after it arrives.
To finish
Cellar and orchard
Fruit from the orchard, and something from a cellar that predates the current building.
The house
It was a working quinta long before it was a hotel
The walls went up in 1618 to store wine, and for most of four centuries that is exactly what they did. The floors are uneven, the windows are where the light was needed rather than where symmetry wanted them, and none of the fourteen rooms is the same shape.
We restored it slowly and changed as little as we could get away with. What is new is honest about being new; what is old was left alone.
Fourteen rooms, no two alike
Everything on the menu from within forty kilometres
A cellar that predates the current building
No cars needed once you arrive
Reservations
Come and stay
Send us your dates and how many of you there are. Someone who works here will answer, and they will tell you honestly which room suits you rather than which one is dearest.
Reservations
stay@solsticequinta.com
Telephone
+351 254 738 210
Address
Quinta do Solstício, Douro
Nearest station
Pinhão, 12 km