Portimao Trip Overview
Join a private wine tour of two local vineyards/farms and their cellars, guided by a wine expert and learn about all the process of winemaking, from the vineyard to the bootle. Enjoy tasting three types of wine at each vineyard, while you learn more about wine flavours and how to better degustate.
Then ascend to the highest peak in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Feast on a lunch or dinnner with view to the coastline sunset in a mountain top restaurant with some of the best Portuguese cuisine specialties and a panoramic view over Algarve.
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* Duration: 6 to 7 hours
* Starts: Portimao, Portugal
* Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Portimao, Algarve, Portugal
Join a private wine tour of two local vineyards/farms and their cellars, guided by a wine expert and learn about all the process of winemaking, from the vineyard to the bootle. Enjoy tasting three types of wine at each vineyard, while you learn more about wine flavours and how to better degustate.
Then ascend to the highest peak in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Feast on a lunch or dinnner with view to the coastline sunset in a mountain top restaurant with some of the best Portuguese cuisine specialties and a panoramic view over Algarve.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Villa Alvor, Quinta Morgado da Torre, Sitio da Penina, 8501-156 Portimão, Portugal
Located on the north border area of Portimão and Alvor. With the big mountain of Monchique, that dominates the view when we are at the vineyards, this large property has also growing areas of cork trees, wheat fields and orange trees. In the family since 1865 and producers of grapes from a long time, this farm built their modern winery in 1999 and were the first producing certified designation of origin wines in the Algarve. In the esplanade, at the shop or at the oak barrels is visible the tradition of this family estate.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Quinta Do Frances Winery, Odelouca River Valley Sitio da Dobra, Cx Postal 862H, Silves 8300-037 Portugal
Located north Portimão, already on Silves county. It’s an exclusive wine farm production, the one located most north in the region ,right on the beginning of the Monchique Mountains. Owned by a portuguese-french couple that met at Bordeaux, where he was born and grew up surroundend by the influence of wine. They moved in the region at the beginning of the century to start this project from zero. In the slopes of Odelouca River Vlley, they planted their vineyard and built their small but well equiped winery, that also hosts a tasting room, barrels room and laboratory.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Monchique, Monchique, Faro District, Algarve
Driving trough the town of Monchique
Stop At: Mount Foia, Serra de Monchique, Monchique Portugal
The highest point of South of Portugal and it’s incredible 360º of panoramic views
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Luar da Fóia, N266-3 4, 8550 Monchique, Portugal
Lunch
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Paraíso Montanha, N266-3 101, 8550-375 Monchique, Portugal
Lunch
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
