Wine in Porto, Douro Valley

CMTour Douro Valley Tours ★ 4.3

A Douro day-tour specialist offering wine tastings, quinta visits, river cruises and transfers from Porto, with private and small-group options.

Wine Tourism Portugal Douro Tours ★ 4.3

A wine-tourism specialist curating private Douro tours with producer-direct quinta visits, tastings and rabelo cruises tailored to wine-focused travellers.

Essencia do Vinho Porto ★ 4.7

Portugal's flagship wine fair fills the neoclassical Palacio da Bolsa in Porto with around 4,000 wines from more than 400 producers, Douro reds and Ports prominent among them, across four days of tastings and masterclasses.

Tip: Saturday is the busiest and dearest day; a weekday afternoon ticket gives you far more room at the producer tables.

Festa de Sao Joao do Porto ★ 4.4

Porto's midsummer street festival on the night of 23 June, celebrated for more than six centuries, fills the city with grilled sardines, bonfires, plastic hammers and free-flowing Vinho Verde and Douro wine until dawn.

Tip: The riverside Ribeira and the Fontainhas neighbourhood are the liveliest; base in Porto for the night, then escape to the quiet valley to recover the next day.