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Cockburn's Cellars Tour: Explore the Largest Aging Warehouse in Vila Nova de Gaia
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221 Ratings
Vila Nova de Gaia
Experience the grandeur of Cockburn's Cellars, the largest aging warehouse in Vila Nova de Gaia. Discover the art of port aging and taste the unique flavors of Cockburn's Ports.
Duration:
1 hour, 20 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Cockburn’s Port Wine Lodge - Guided tour and wine tasting
What's Included
- Certified tour guide
Additional Information
Cockburn’s expansive maturation warehouse, residing in the historical core of Vila Nova de Gaia, is the largest, hosting 6,518 Port Barrels ageing under its colossal ceiling. It boasts one of the rare facilities with its team of barrel-makers.
Cockburn’s Ports undergo meticulous ageing in oak vessels and ferries under the supervision of expert tasters and wine-makers until they attain perfect ripeness.
The grand scale of Cockburn’s warehouse affords ample room to store bountiful amounts of the Special Reserve ageing process, which cultivates its distinctive style and flawless equilibrium, gained from extended wood ageing than any other Reserve Port.
Location
Cockburn’s Port Wine Lodge
Rua Serpa Pinto 346
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(221 Ratings)
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Epaulp2021
Jun 21, 2024
Great port lodge tour - Very informative guide who explained and answered the questions about the Port industry and history. Found the warehouse very interesting and enjoyed the tasting session and overall good value for money.
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Chimayred
Jun 12, 2024
highly recommended, and informative. - Although our tour was arranged by a friend back home who is a wine importer, I think it was the basic tour, although the wines and ports we tasted after wards I believe were customized for us.
The tour was top notch, very informative, very good tour guide, just long enough, fascinating (they have unopened bottles of port from 1861 and ports still aging in vats since the 1930's.)
Afterwards we went to their nice simple garden and had some snacks and drinks.
Highly recommended.
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Grandtour40384537445
May 31, 2024
Great and thank you - The visit is great! The place is large and magnificent. The guide in French is very kind, he explains well and takes his time. Ports can be ordered for shipping. A beautiful terrace under the vines to enjoy a Pastéis or port. I recommend the port ginger cocktail!!! Thanks to the French guide!!!!
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267ericb
May 26, 2024
Great tour, amazing port! - Our Tauck tour took us here for a port making tour and tasting. I’m not a port fan, so I was pleasantly surprised at how delicious all their offerings were. Igor was our tour guide. He was informative and funny! Definitely recommend.
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Peter_v
May 6, 2024
Go on this one - The tour was very good and the guide was very informative.
It was not a problem to ask questions and he engaged with all the tour party.
Well worth the money and would recommend this over others that we have been on.
Most of all was the Port and chocolates, what a way to end the tour.
So much so that we had to order another couple of ports!
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Iamwasp
Apr 30, 2024
Fantastic Tour that was very intereting and so well guided - Fantastic tour on which we learnt so much about Port - who knew! Our tour guide was outstanding, the party size was just right and the three glasses of port at the end were the icing on the cake. We had no idea that the cellars were this big or that the estates were so vast. Such an interesting experience and one not to be missed Go you wont be disappointed
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Stuartp378
Apr 29, 2024
Very interesting and informative tour - Chose the tour of Cockburns day before we went after searching through several online. We took the English tour led by Francisco. He was amazing. Very knowledgeable, interesting and fun. We had an excellent tasting session at the end of the tour trying 3 ports. A special reserve, a 20 year Tawny and a Vintage 2016.
Our personal favourite was the 20 year Tawny.
We also purchased a 30 year Tawny from the bar to try too. Well worth it!
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Foodieluxury
Apr 26, 2024
Good cave for visit and tasting in Gaia - Visited 3 caves in Gaia and this one was our favorite visit. Very interesting french speaking guide and lovely tasting. Highly recommend
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Veryhappy122
Apr 24, 2024
Great tour - Brilliant tour, very interesting and informative. Our guide was so knowledgable about the history of Cockburn’s. Tasting was great too.
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Hfpitt
Apr 22, 2024
Disappointing Experience - Somewhat disappointed.
The settting is nothing special.
What annoyed us the most was after paying for premium tastings and asking about a cheese board we were advised one cheese board was not enough for two people. WRONG!
One board is 100% shareable between two people. It’s big ugly chicks of cheese that wasn’t explained to us so we had no idea what cheese we were eating.
The port was nice but generally a lack of attention and overall experience was poor.
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