Wine

09h00
Pickup Point
10h30
Visit To The Wine Vineyard
11h00
Visit To The Wine House
12h00
Wine Savouring
13h00
Lunch
15h30
Wine Tasting
17h00
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The Wine in Portugal

Red, white, green, rosé, muscatel, champagne: wine, that is nothing more than an alcoholic drink that is formed from the juice of fermented grapes, has a major role in the life of the portuguese people.

Vineyard cultivation in Portugal is first attributed to the Tartessus tribe, a people that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 a.C and that maintained comercial relation with eastern and southern mediterranean peoples. However, archaeological traces suggest that wine was already known long before. The diversity of the portuguese wines started with the introduction of new varieties, brought by the phoenicians, greeks and celts. Later, during the Roman Empire, the wine industry grew and suffered a huge modernization process: new species spread and cultivation and production techniques were perfected. The wine’s cultural weight was already so much that not even the long centuries of muslim occupation were enough to diminish its importance.

When Portugal was formed as a country, vineyard plantation was fundamental amongst the chores of populating, cleaning and cultivating the conquered land. Religious Orders became the chief wine producers during the Middle Ages, when new varieties were also introduced, due to their experiences or brought by pilgrims. From Burgundy arrived french species and, from eastern Europe, varieties such as muscatel were imported.
It was in Portugal that the first wine demarcation land came to be, during the XVIII, by orders of Marquês de Pombal, with the creation of the Douro Demarcated Wine Region.

Portugal’s diversified weather and soils are propitious to the vineyard cultivation, which has a growing importance in the national economy. Demarcated wine regions run from north to south of the country and there are hundreds of thousands of wine producers in Portugal.
Portuguese wine is becoming more and more recognized and worldwide appreciated, which has allowed the growth of the national wine regions with less tradition. This is the example of Algarve, which has been showing a huge development in the vineyard culture and wine production.

TOUR

We invite you to know more about portuguese wine. We’d like you to have a grasp of Algarve’s wine with a tour of a vineyard and a wine house of a family tradition. Enjoy a lunch full of regional delicacies, deliciously cooked for you, and relax in a wine tasting, surrounded by a breathtaking mountain landscape.

Visit to the vineyard
Our journey starts with a visit to the vineyards of the villa where we’re gonna enjoy our day. Here we’re gonna learn more about Algarve’s vineyards, its cultivation process and maintenance of the different varieties.

Visit to the wine house
Surrounded by the rich scent of the juices and of the wooden swollen casks, filled with aging wine, in the wine house, among the tanks and the prenses, we’ll understand better the ancient art of transforming grapes into wine.

Wine savouring
We end our morning by the pool, to refresh ourselves with a local wine before lunch. A small glimpse of what’s coming in the afternoon.

Lunch
We want to offer you a lunch full of regional delicacies, cooked specifically for you, and that you can enjoy in the middle of the mountains, in a relaxed and familiar environment.

Wine Tasting
We return to the villa , already satiated, so that we can devote ourselves to the wine tasting. Again by the pool, enjoying a wonderful view of the mountains and of the village of Tor, you can relax while you appreciate and savour the wines specially selected for you.