Portimao Trip Overview
Indulge in a 6-hour private gastronomic tour from Portimão. Visit a winery to sample local wine and produce as well as a medronho distillery for arbutus brandy and arbutus honeyed brandy tastings. Have lunch or dinner at sunset in mountain top restaurant with panoramic views over Algarve, and indulge in a variety of the best Portuguese specialties.
Additional Info
* Duration: 6 hours
* Starts: Portimao, Portugal
* Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Wine Tasting & Winery Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Portimao, Algarve, Portugal
Indulge in a 6-hour private gastronomic tour from Portimão. Visit a winery to sample local wine and produce as well as a medronho distillery for arbutus brandy and arbutus honeyed brandy tastings. Have lunch or dinner at sunset in mountain top restaurant with panoramic views over Algarve, and indulge in a variety of the best Portuguese specialties.
Itinerary
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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 30 minutes
Stop At: Alferce, Monchique Portugal
On the road to Alferce, in the middle of the Monchique Mountains, we visit a traditional distillery of “Aguardente de Medronho”. This schnapps/brandy it’s a gem of the local mountains, a tradition with centuries, that is passing into generations and is still produced in the same totally crafted way.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Luar da Fóia, N266-3 4, 8550 Monchique, Portugal
Lunch with some of the best specialities of the montain gastronomy and with panoramic views
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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
