Portugal Travel Guía

Crossing the bridges that join the city of Oporto with Vila Nova of Gaia, we come to an appointment that the tourist cannot spend for high in its visit for the city. Since many people know already, we refer to the famous wine vaults of wine of Oporto, which are distributed of way staggered along the area known as Vila Nova of Gaia.

There are great the wine vaults of fame that take years producing the different varieties of this famous wine. Offley, Sandeman, Calem or Ferreira, are the names of some of more acquaintances of between more than hundred wine vaults that you can find in Oporto. In your trip to Oporto it is a forced visit to know some of its wine vaults. Also, they are placed in one of the most tourist areas of the city, with what you can be useful to eat there a good fish to the shore of the Douro then to realize some of the visits.

Almost all the wine vaults open its doors so that the tourist could know the process of making and conservation of the wine of Oporto. In general, you usually have visits guided by the wine vaults, in different languages, and that can be free or not, depending on the wine vault. Nevertheless, some of the most famous receive a reasonable price that is compensated by a tasting of the different types of wine of Oporto at the end of the visit. Also you will be able to buy at good price some bottle if you have liked this typical local liquor.

In your visit for the wine vaults of Oporto you will know its history, its intimate relation with England, how ride being the process of making and maceration of this wine and what is the secret that gives him this characteristic strong but sweet flavor. Also you will know and you even will be able to look at the different varieties, from the dry and sweet white wine, the rosé known as Tawny, and the Ruby, the reddest and most fruity of the three.