Algarve wine tour and mountain top trip with lunch or dinner at sunset time

Join an intimate wine tour of two local vineyards/farms and their cellars, guided by a wine expert and learn about all the process of winemaking, from the vineyard to the bootle. Enjoy tasting three types of wine at each vineyard, while you learn more about wine flavours and how to better degustate. Then ascend to the highest peak in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Feast on a lunch or dinnner with view to the coastline sunset in a mountain top restaurant with some of the best Portuguese cuisine specialties and a panoramic view over Algarve.

1. 1

   Stop 1

   1.5 hours

   Located on the north border area of Portimão and Alvor. With the big mountain of Monchique, that dominates the view when we are at the vineyards, this large property has also growing areas of cork trees, wheat fields and orange trees. In the family since 1865 and producers of grapes from a long time, this farm built their modern winery in 1999 and were the first producing certified designation of origin wines in the Algarve. In the esplanade, at the shop or at the oak barrels is visible the tradition of this family estate.

2. 2

   Quinta Do Frances Winery

   1 hour

   Located north Portimão, already on Silves county. It's an exclusive wine farm production, the one located most north in the region ,right on the beginning of the Monchique Mountains. Owned by a portuguese-french couple that met at Bordeaux, where he was born and grew up surroundend by the influence of wine. They moved in the region at the beginning of the century to start this project from zero. In the slopes of Odelouca River Vlley, they planted their vineyard and built their small but well equiped winery, that also hosts a tasting room, barrels room and laboratory.

3. 3

   Monchique

   Pass by

   Driving trough the town of Monchique

4. 4

   Monte Foia

   10 min

   Drive to viewpoint in the top of the mountain, where from the highest point of south Portugal it is possible to see almost the entire Algarve and its coastline

5. 5

   Stop 5

   1.5 hours

   Lunch or dinner Two options of tour available, morning start with lunch, or afternoon start with dinner. During the booking you will be asked to choose the time and also one of the two restaurant options mentioned in this itinerary

6. 6

   Stop 6

   1.5 hours

   Lunch or dinner Two options of tour available, morning start with lunch, or afternoon start with dinner. During the booking you will be asked to choose the time and also one of the two restaurant options mentioned in this itinerary

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• A minimum of 2 people per booking is required

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