Porto and Douro Wine Tour

Duration: 05 Days

COUNTRIES VISITED: Portugal

PLACES VISITED: Porto valley, Douro valley, Ferrao and Pinhao.

Upon arrival in Porto, check into your hotel in the city centre.

Free afternoon and evening to explore the city and relax.

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast at your hotel. A short stroll to do a tour and tastings of four Ports at Sandeman Port wine lodge. Visit Grahams Port wine lodge on foot for a tour and three tastings. Enjoy a five-course lunch with two local wines and three Ports, just next to Graham’s Port Lodge. Keep by the riverside for a 50 minute river cruise in a traditional Rabelo boat.

 

After breakfast, check out of your hotel. Travel by train from Porto to Ferråo. The journey time is no more than two hours and ten minutes and tickets can be purchased directly at the station. Check into your preferred room grade at the Quinta Nova Luxury Winery. After settling in, you will be taken on a full tour of the estate’s winery, concluding with tastings of a white and two red wines. In the evening, a four-course wine tasting dinner will be served in the hotel restaurant.

After breakfast, you will be taken to Ferrão station. From here, travel by train to Pinhão. The journey time is less than ten minutes and tickets can be purchased directly at the station. In Pinhão, we will arrange tours and tastings and two premium wineries, and a picnic lunch will be served at one of the estates. You will also have some free time to explore the quaint riverside town centre independently. Take the train back to Ferrão at the end of the afternoon.

After Breakfast and check out of the hotel. You will be taken back to Ferrão station in time for your return train to Porto and your onward journey.

 

Highlights

  • The wines of both Porto and the Douro
  • Visit the famous Sandeman Port wine lodge.
  • Tutored tasting of ten, twenty, thirty and forty-year-old aged Tawny ports.
  • Guided tour and tastings at the renowned Grahams Port wine lodge.
  • Graham’s Six Grapes, Graham’s thirty-year-old Tawny and Graham’s 2000
  • 50-minute Douro River cruise in a Rabelo boat.
  • A traditional food and wine tasting lunch will be served in a true Portuguese setting.
  • You will enjoy five courses.
  • Tour of the on-site winery, concluding with tastings of three of the estate’s wines.
  • A delicious four course wine tasting dinner will be served in the hotel’s restaurant.
  • Visit two premium wineries, who produce both DOC Douro wines and ports.