Douro all-inclusive small group tour with wine tasting in a winery with the winemaker, complete lunch, museum visiting, city tour at Peso da Régua and pick-up/drop-off.
The tour Starts With the Pick-up anywhere at Porto city before 09:00 am. After the pick-up, we will head to Douro Valley through A4 tramontane Highway, which is one of the most beautiful roads of Portugal with amazing landscapes views.
At 10:00 am, we will arrive at Douro valley’s main city, Peso da Régua which is surrounded by most known winery’s vineyards and olive groves with the Douro river along the bottom of the valley giving an unique pace to the local atmosphere. As soon as we arrive, we will board a 60’s restored Volkswagen van and start our city tour through the city.
At 10:30, After the City Tour, we will arrive at the Douro Valley Museum, which is the most important museum of the region and home of the historical artefacts that will help the visitors understand how the valley became the first and one of the most important demarcated wine region of the world. At the end of the visiting, we will taste the city’s local cooperative Port Wine along with almonds.
At 12:30, we will drive to the restaurant to have lunch that includes a main dish, red or white wine and dessert.
At 14:30 we will head to the Quinta do Pessegueiro’s winery, a five-star wine brand that belongs to the Zanier Group with an astonishing cellar, bottling and tasting site carved right on top of a mountain in the heart of Douro Valley. Once we arrive there, we will be welcomed by its winemaker that will show us all the process related to the plantation, harvesting, crushing, winemaking, ageing and finally a complete tasting with 5 different wines (1 white; 2 red; 1 white port; 1 vintage) along with almonds.
At 17:00 we will leave the winery and drive back to Porto city, where will finish our tour with the Drop-Off at 18:30.
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Best money spent in the whole trip, we did everything we wanted to.