We signed up for a Fado and wine tasting here because we were interested in learning about Port…read morewine and also liked the idea of experiencing a traditional Fado. The tour was informative and the guide was very knowledgeable. After the tour, they offer you 2 port wines to try as you get to listen to the beautiful fado played by the very skilled musicians. There were two singers and both did a lovely job. It was also fun that we were seated almost family style in large elevated picnic-type tables. We met some great people while also getting to enjoy the music and wine. This might be one of the more well-known which also equals touristy places, but overall the experience is top notch and a decent value for the price.

A great stop in Porto for anyone interested in port wine and Portuguese wine heritage. Calém (Kopke…read moreGroup) offers a well-organized and informative tour that walks you through the history of port production, aging processes, and the Douro Valley wine region in a clear and engaging way. They offer 45-minute tours in multiple languages. Our tour guide was informative and kindly tolerated my non-stop questions. One standout detail: their largest aging barrels are big enough to fit a car inside. The guided portion ends with a well-curated tasting, accompanied by explanations of flavor profiles and styles. (Tickets are under 25 euros.)

We had a great time here today with our expert Ines. We sampled 3 different types of 10 year ports…read moreand splurged on the 10, 20, 30 and 40 yr ports.

My group participated in the port and chocolate tasting. It included a tour of the caves with a…read moreknowledgeable tour guide, followed by a three port tasting with dark chocolate truffles. A great way to learn about the history of port at Sandeman.

As I continue slowly catching up on finishing the *many* review drafts of places I visited in our…read morewhirlwind tour of Portugal in January, in this case one of a whole bunch of port-focused wineries within convenient walking distance of each other, that obviously being why I chose to stay at an airbnb on this side of the bridge, so I could visit as many of them as possible. Funny enough, at first glance, this tasting room felt *very* corporate - there's tons of space to spread out, but the overall vibe of the place was something like "museum gift shop". You can tell the receptionist is just a receptionist and has nothing to do with the wine's creation, which isn't inherently bad, it just sets a different tone than some of the *smallest* port tasting rooms. That said, their prices were extremely reasonable pretty much all across the board, including a base flight for 12.50 euros that had multiple standouts for the trip, enough so that this was the only tasting room where I went back a couple days later and self-constructed a second 20 euro flight that included a couple of their more somewhat more bottles. Though, funny enough, it was mostly their cheapest bottles that impressed me the most in their complexity of flavor - their tawny reserve, the Lagrima das Damas, the Lacrimosas, the base (slightly less sweet) white, and one truly interesting bottle, a Vinho Quinado, effectively a tawny port turned into an amaro with quinine and other botanicals, which as a cocktail nerd, obviously I loved learning about and trying. They *have* plenty of very expensive bottles, but the ones I mentioned were, as of when I visited a couple months ago, just *ludicrously* well-priced for how good they were. (I bought the most bottles here of anywhere I went, 3 including the Vinho Quinado - and would definitely have bought a couple more, if luggage weight hadn't been such a consideration.) I totally wasn't expecting to love their cheapest bottles, honestly, more than some of the much pricier ones I tried, here and elsewhere.

From a Kanaka, as you walk in, it seems like a typical tourist trap. Counter, Plexi glass, brand…read morenames all over. Not homey like the smaller port tasting spots. We took the $20 tour. Good history-buff tour. Warm in the museum. Bit stuffy but a great place to view memorabilia and learn the history of this influential family. Ended with a port tasting that was quiet nice. I prefer smaller tasting groups thene being part of a large scheduled group. Service was very good.

Vinologia is a really great spot to try a bunch of different port wines, as well as learn about the…read moredifferent kinds. Before coming here I thought there was only one type of port... How ignorant! There's so many! The port I know and love are the aged Tawny ports. Another category is called Ruby, and they're the juicier, sweeter redder ones: very delicate, not much wood flavour. They talked about the Vintage and Late Bottle Vintage (LBV) for the Ruby ports. There's also white ports, and they can be dry or sweet and are generally served as an apéritif. There's also colheitas which are single year Tawny ports from a really good year, which needs to be announced by the governing body. Really neat stuff. Definitely a high bar for wine standards. You can do 3 or 6 samples, 30 cl each, in either the base level or the more premium stuff. I did the tasting of 6 premium ones. The atmosphere isn't the most spacious or comfortable but you're not there for that, you're there for the port! They show all the bottles with the glasses so you can read them and take your time experiencing them and comparing them. It was a really great experience and I would highly recommend it to get a proper port experience.

We are so very happy we took their tour and tasting! Our guide was amazing, so informative,…read moreexpressive & patient with the group. Ferreira is truly beautiful inside & out. It was such an enjoyable experience. We highly recommend taking their tour & tasting! And buy, buy the different ports in their shop!

This was by far the best Port wine tour of the four we took in the Duomo Valley. The building is…read morevery old, and has been restored beautifully, including taking adjacent buildings, and using those, now, cobblestone indoor streets for hallways. Our guide was taking classes for Sommelier. She said the "Wineologists" who check the wines for chemical balance, sugar, acid, taste, etc., was a more difficult profession to achieve. These wines are in huge oak barrels for years aging to become the perfect Port. Throughout the tours are displays, the history of Ms. Ferreira, a likeable woman who did wonderful things for the area, and the small details that we learned about. The tasting is a must. The room, including a gift shop, is lovely. Three glasses of Ports white, tawny and red, are presented with a cheese/nut board. These Ports were the best we had tasted all week.

Amazing place. They gave us a tour, a little boring but informative. Great meal and wine. Highly…read morerecommend!

What better way to spend a rainy day than touring Taylor's and tasting some port wine?!…read more We spent the majority of the day at the WOW museum and walked over to Taylor's afterward. They have a great variety of port wine and we ordered a tasting with chocolate pairing. At a whopping 49 euro, we got 1 tasting flight and some tiny chocolates. At that price, we decided to share taking tiny sips. It was an experience and the wines are delicious!

Beautiful winery in the Duoro Valley!…read more Got to come here on behalf of a tour I booked on booking.com. The docents here were very knowledgeable. It was such a beautiful place. It was nice to know they still have the grape stomping tradition here, and you get to see where the magic happens. Not only that, you get to have 3 tastings of Port wine. The views, the ambience and the wine were 5/5!

Their Ports were very good. The Pink was unusual. The tour was informative and enjoyable. Our guide…read moreand everyone in the tasting room was friendly and pleasant. I had a plate of excellent cheeses for lunch. Croft was up the hill a bit which meant it was away from the crowds next to the Douro river.

We all highly recommend taking their tour & do their tasting. We suggest the chocolate tasting so…read moreyou can try their white port as well. Their cinnamon truffle to eat with their port was Amazing! Our guide was fabulous. He was funny, kind & knowledgeable! We learned a lot. Absolutely a must, in my opinion while on the Douro River in Gaia! Come'mon! It is so cool to see the floors made of wood, the barrells & barrels of port.

Amazing tour! This is a must do if you're in the area. We got a tour of the facilities and had a…read morefun tour guy who taught us a ton. I was amazed at the size of the wine barrels. We did the wine tasting with chocolate and also got the port and tonic drink and a cheese board. Highly recommend doing it all! Make sure you make a reservation or better yet, buy your tickets in advance. All the wines were delicious and they have shipping back to the US!

Tour: Our tour guide Sonia was clear and concise! I really…read moreappreciated that the tour focused on the port aging process rather than focusing on the specific history of their distillery. It was the perfect introduction to port with the added benefit of supporting a port owned by 100% Portuguese families! Cost: If you book online, you pay only 5 euros for the ticket. Once there, if you pay the remaining 10 euros in cash, you are able to deduct the 10 euros from the price of a bottle. Also, the tastings are all of the younger aged ports where you have the option at the time of tasting to decide whether or not you want to add on the older more expensive ones. For those, you can also deduct the tasting price from the price of the bottle. Know that you can do half tastings and split it between red and white. This means you can try half red and half white for the cost of a single tasting! This was a great price for port tastings when I compared it to others in the area.

As I continue slowly catching up on finishing the *many* review drafts of places I visited in our…read morewhirlwind tour of Portugal in January, in this case one of a whole bunch of port-focused wineries within convenient walking distance of each other, that obviously being why I chose to stay at an airbnb on this side of the bridge, so I could visit as many of them as possible. So I'm slightly conflicted in this one, by coincidence, the first place we stopped - on one hand, I absolutely loved the small-batch craft feel of the place, with a tour the exact opposite of the museum-feeling tours you'd likely get at the tasting rooms of any of the big-name, big-production port producers we mostly see in the US (short, but you could tell you were seeing where the magic was actually happening, the guide was knowledgeable and clearly happy to answer any questions we had about port production or the different types of port (which was convenient, as while I was already very excited to taste a bunch of port, I wasn't by any means an *expert*, so it was a good primer for terminology and such). And while the tour was basically just of the one room where they age everything, it was cool to see up close and personal, and was plenty large enough to get pictures with the large aging barrels, which we... definitely should have done, in retrospect. That's on us. Their tasting room is sparse, but that's way better than feeling overly corporate, which this is, again, the very opposite of. On the other hand, I hate to say it, but I didn't think their ports were that great? Even at the time I didn't think they were as good as some port-style California fortified wines I'd had, but especially now after having gone and had tastings at all their immediate competitors over the course of the subsequent few days, their ports were all clearly small batch and made with care, but they all still felt just a little... flabby. None were by any means bad, but they were probably still some of the least interesting ports we tried. (At least of the base ones that were included. You could add on additional tastes of the expensive ones, but I knew I'd be spending a lot this trip trying a broad range of ports at various places, and their expensive ones were... expensive). The tour was 10 euro and included either a flight of their core ports, or chocolates that supposedly contained 20, 30 and 40 year aged port. We figured we could share a flight, so we tried both so we could have a port and chocolate pairing - the chocolates were good, but I couldn't really taste a lot of port under the ganache, let alone that one was made with 20 vs 40 year old port, so that felt like a little bit of a waste. The ports were all, as I said, decent but not amazing, at least the reasonably priced ones. That said, the 10 euro each for the tour was also refundable on a bottle purchase, so at that point we still obviously had to buy a couple bottles of the one we'd tried and liked well enough, that was affordable (the fine tawny, at an effectively 6 euro a bottle, given the refund of the tour we'd already paid for, it was a no brainer), which is why I have a small glass in front of me while finish this review, so I can confirm, yep, still just a little one-dimensional. (Though it's been quite good for cocktail-crafting.)