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

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Algarve view from Monchique Mountains — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

Algarve wine tour and mountain top trip with lunch or dinner at sunset time, photo 2 — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

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.

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At a glance

Duration: 6–7 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Up to 8 people
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: Portuguese, English
Operated by: Algarve Wine Tours

Ages: Adults (18–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Permanent guide during the entire trip
Included: Groups of 2 to 5 people may have a shared tour. Private tour option available with an extra fee
Included: Lunch or dinner. With starters, free choice of main course, desert, house wine, coffee and water
Included: Private visit at the vineyards and winery with your exclusive guide
Included: Full wine tour with explanation of the making process in the vineyards and winery
Included: Wine tasting of 3 classic wines at each winery (6 in total)
Included: Maximum of 8 people and 3 groups for shared tours. Groups starting on 6 people get private tours.

Not included

Not included: Food at the wineries. Tapas available under request and with extra charge
Not included: Premium wine tasting. Upgraded tasting available with extra charge
Not included: Drinks at the restaurant: Other wines, spirits, digestives and special coffees
Not included: Food at the restaurant: Some specific options may be excluded of the choice (informed when choosing)

Itinerary

Stop 1

1 h 30 min Admission included

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.
Quinta Do Frances Winery

one hour Admission included

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.
Monchique

Passing by

Driving trough the town of Monchique
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
Stop 5

1 h 30 min Admission included

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
Stop 6

1 h 30 min Admission included

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

Meeting point and pickup

You can be picked up from your accommodation or go straight to the meeting point.

Meeting point

Customers are contacted to arrange all the details of the meeting. Considering what is more convinient and efficient for each case, the location for each meeting will be different

End point

Customers are contacted to arrange all the details of the meeting. Considering what is more convinient and efficient for each case, the location for each meeting will be different

Pickup points

Hotel Alcaide
Hotel Santa Catarina Algarve
Prainha Clube
RR Alvor Baia Resort
Pestana Carvoeiro Golfe - Al
Mirachoro Portimao
Pestana Alvor South Beach Premium Suite Hotel
Vila Marachique
Hotel Algarve Casino
Clube Vilarosa
Casa Apartments
Hotel Luar

and 80 more pickup points

Pick-up at clients accomodation included in Portimão and surroundings (Praia da Rocha, Alvor, Ferragudo).

We provide pick-up in a wider area of the Algarve with an extra fee. It can be done by us or partner drivers.

Clients from other areas are also welcome to meet us in Portimão. We give all the indications for the most convinient meeting/picking place for each case, depending of the location of origin, type of transport used or needs of free parking.

Cancellation

Free cancellation

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

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Good to know

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

Options

Meal at "Luar da Fóia"

Top quality restaurant, one of the best of the region. Very diversificated and excellent selection of the best cuisine specialities from the mountain gastronomy and panoramic views to the coast.

Pickup included
Meal at "Paraíso da Montanha"

This is a a traditional family restaurant, with local excellent tasty food with a homemade feeling. At the esplanade stunning panoramic views from 800mts high reaching approximately 100Km of the coast

Pickup included