Douro Valley Premium Small-Group Tour: Wine, Lunch & Cruise

What you pay for

Transport with 2 wine tastings and quinta lunch; the boat trip and bottled water are included, tips excluded

Portugal Excellence Tours takes you to 2 Douro producers for wine tastings, with lunch at a quinta. The tour lasts 10 hours and costs from €170 per adult. You leave daily at 8:30 from a Porto meeting point assigned using your hotel address. The Pinhão boat trip lasts 1 hour. Olive oil and honey tastings accompany the wine visits, with up to 8 people in the road group.

The catch: The daily 8:30 departure uses an assigned meeting point, which may be away from your hotel.

Duration

10 hours

Price unit

Per adult

Departure

8:30 daily

Meeting point

Assigned Porto location near your hotel

Quintas

2 producer visits; port and table wine

Lunch

At a quinta

Boat

1 hour from Pinhão

Group

Up to 8 people

Main trade-off

Assigned meeting point instead of guaranteed hotel collection

In the price

Lunch of typical Portuguese food; Small Group Tour (máx 8 persons); Bottled water; 1-Hour boat ride; Local Guide; Wine, Olive Oil & Honey Tasting

Not in the price

Gratuities

Guide languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese

Cancellation

free cancellation until 24 hours before

Itinerary

You visit 2 producers, taking the Pinhão boat trip and quinta lunch between the port and table wine tastings.

1. 1
   Start in Porto Meeting point or hotel pickup
2. 2
   Quinta do Panascal 1 h

   A vineyard tour introduces port production before a tasting of 3 ports at the first quinta.

3. 3
   Douro River 1 h

   You board a wooden boat in Pinhão for the river section of the day.

4. 4
   Pinhão Pass by, no stop

   The road passes through Pinhão.

5. 5
   Pinhão station Pass by, no stop

   You pass the station during the drive.

6. 6
   a Douro quinta 90 min

   Lunch is served at a quinta overlooking vineyards. Vegetarian dishes are available alongside fish or meat.

7. 7
   Vilarinho de São Romao 90 min

   The local producer visit pairs table wines with olive oil and honey, with time to hear about the products.

8. 8
   Porto Pass by, no stop

   The return brings you to the Porto point where you were collected that morning.

Lunch has 90 minutes, and the producer visit in Vilarinho de São Romão has another 90. The boat section takes 1 hour. You return to your original Porto meeting point after the 10 hour tour.

What is included

Options and departures

The single option includes 2 producer visits and quinta lunch, with a 1 hour boat trip. It runs daily at 8:30 from your assigned Porto meeting point.

Means: Book the 8:30 tour for wine with food tastings if an assigned Porto meeting point works for you.

Meeting point and pickup

Assigned meeting point

Give your hotel details when you book so a nearby Porto meeting point can be assigned. Your hotel address guides the choice of collection point.

Journey timing

Collection and return times can change with local traffic. Keep that in mind when arranging other transport in Porto after the tour.

When you make your reservation, mention your hotel and we will be assigned a meeting point closest to you.

The booking page lists the 213 pickup points.

Who it is for

If olive oil and honey matter alongside the wine, this pairs food tastings with 2 producer visits. The road group has up to 8 people. You need 10 hours and a way to reach the Porto meeting point assigned from your hotel address.

For olive oil with Amarante, Meridian4People costs from €149 per adult; groups can reach 30. For central Porto hotel collection, Complete Douro costs from €99 per adult; weather can replace the boat trip.

Means: The single 8:30 departure suits you if quinta lunch matters and an assigned meeting point works for your Porto stay.

Not for

• Travellers requiring collection from their hotel door
• Anyone with less than 10 hours available

In harvest: book September and October dates ahead for the producer visits. Any grape treading needs a separate arrangement.

Know before you go

Cancellation and booking

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Confirmation: instant. Ticket: show it on your phone. Up to 15 travellers per booking.

Reviews

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