Douro Harvest Cruise

Check-in

• Passengers board at Vila Nova de Gaia Pier or at Estiva Pier (Ribeira)

• Breakfast served on board

• Cruise the Crestuma-Lever Dam (slope 14m) and the Carrapatelo Dam (slope 35m)

• Lunch served on board

02:45 p.m.

• Expected arrival at Régua Pier

• Cruise the Régua Dam (slope 27m)

05:00 p.m.

• Arrival at Pinhão Pier

• Passengers landing

• Transfer to the Hotel in the Douro Region

• Dinner served at the hotel

• Accommodation in the Douro Region

09:00 a.m.

• Breakfast served at the Hotel

10:00 a.m.

• Transfer to one of the most important Douro Wineries (also named Quinta)

• Welcoming and visiting the Gardens of the “Quinta” with a glass of Moscatel Wine and enjoying the pleasant sounds of the “concertina” (a typical music instrument)

• Group travel to the vineyards

• Picking the grapes and transportation of the large baskets full of grapes to the winery (all tasks with live and traditional songs)

12:30 p.m.

• Wine tasting with the winemakers of this “Quinta”

01:00 p.m.

• Traditional lunch from Douro region (cooked in iron pots)

03:00 p.m.

• The last part of the harvesting begins: treading the grapes with your feet with traditional and live rhythms

04:00 p.m.

• Liqueur wines tasting

05:00 p.m.

• Transfer to the Pinhão Railway Station

• Return by train to Porto

08:35 p.m.

• Arrival at Porto Railway Station (São Bento Station)