Private Douro Valley Tour with Sommelier, Lunch and Wine Tasting

This was a fantastic tour to small family run wineries. Sara was amazing as a guide. She is knowledgeable of the area and the wines, and was a delight to be with. Her passion for the people and their craft was evident! It was a well planned and wonderful day.

Well worth taking a full day trip from Porto into the amazing Douro Valley. If you appreciate a first class experience then you’ll find the tour with João hard to beat. He lives in the valley and is very well connected, very knowledgeable. The whole family really enjoyed our visit.

Joao was great. He took us to two very different wineries. The first was a family run vineyard making wine via organic methods. Even the design for the bottles were as unique as the wine and they sold to local restaurants. The second was part of the Symington family of wineries and was also great. Looking out onto the river while tasting wines doesn’t get much better. Joao also took us to a local restaurant for lunch where we had traditional dishes with some more wine. Finally after touring all around the valley Joao saved the best for last. He took us to a wine maker who had some of the most delicious Tawny port. The 40 & 50 year old small batches are made by a local and sold locally. Best of all when we went to dinner that night the restaurant we had made reservations with carried both the organic wine and small batch port. Needless to say we had we had a bottle with dinner. I would highly recommend as Joao was great and very knowledgeable.