Douro Valley Wine Tour

Today we took a fun & informative bus tour of the Alto Douro Wine Region. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site & has produced wines for thousands of years. We left at 8:30 this morning and returned back at 6:30 PM. It was a beautiful ride out through the river valley to 2 wine estates where we met the winemakers who explained how their famous Port wine is created. Did you know people actually do stomp grapes as part of the process of making Port wine? We tasted white, ruby & tawny port. We had a delicious Portuguese lunch. I had pork, Jim had cod for lunch. We took a riverboat cruise after lunch which offered beautiful views of the valley. Next we visited the the Croft Vineyard for another wine tasting.Read more