Croft Quinta da Roêda Grape Treading ★ 4.5
Croft's Pinhão estate runs a harvest grape-treading experience in the lagares, paired with an estate visit and a Roêda tasting, with hat and shirt provided.
A hands-on vindima day at the organic Tedo estate: harvest grapes in the vineyard, lunch with the pickers, then tread the grapes barefoot in granite lagares.
Address: Folgosa do Douro, 5110-548 Armamar, Portugal, Douro Valley
Croft's Pinhão estate runs a harvest grape-treading experience in the lagares, paired with an estate visit and a Roêda tasting, with hat and shirt provided.
One of the Douro's oldest estates near Régua offers harvest-day grape picking and treading in eight granite lagares from 1916, with tastings and optional dinner.
A helicopter flight over the terraced Douro vineyards from Porto, with options to land at a quinta for a tasting, framing the UNESCO landscape from the air.
A cruise on a traditional rabelo boat, the wooden vessel once used to carry Port barrels downriver, taking in terraced vineyards on the Pinhão to Tua stretch.
A guided estate visit at Dow's Bomfim ending with a premium flight of Vintage Ports and Dow's Old Tawnies, tasted overlooking the river at Pinhão.
An in-depth Port tasting at Taylor's Gaia lodge stepping through Chip Dry, LBV and aged Tawnies to show how styles are built, after the cellar audio tour.