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Cockburn's Warehouse: Experience Aging Process of Exceptional Port Wines in Vila Nova de Gaia

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Vila Nova de Gaia

Experience the exceptional aging process of Cockburn's Port Wines in Vila Nova de Gaia. Discover the extensive warehouse, skilled coopers, and the perfect balance achieved through careful aging in oak casks.

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Cockburn’s Port Wine Lodge - Guided tour and wine tasting

What's Included

Professional Guide

Additional Information

Cockburn’s expansive maturation warehouse, situated in Vila Nova de Gaia’s historic center, is the area’s largest. It accommodates a staggering 6,518 Port Barrels for aging under its vast roof, one of the only ones with a dedicated team of barrel-makers.

Cockburn’s Ports mature carefully within oak barrels and ferries under the watchful eyes of tasters and winemakers, ensuring they reach optimal maturity.

Due to its colossal size, Cockburn’s warehouse can store a significant quantity of Special Reserve for aging, which helps it develop its specific style and impeccable equilibrium. This is achieved through a longer period of wood aging compared to other Reserve Ports.

Location

R. de Serpa Pinto 346

Rua de Serpa Pinto

Cancellation Policy

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

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Tomoc7176mw

Sep 12, 2023

Great Introduction To The World Of Port Wine - Took the 90 minute tour including a tasting. Our guide, Manuel was very engaging and extremely knowledgeable. We learned a great deal about port and the history of the Cockburn brand. We finished off with the tasting, three very different port wines, paired with an appropriate chocolate truffle. The wines and the chocolates were outstanding

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Tiredoftryin

Apr 22, 2023

Splendid Tour - Good news, there are no restrictions on photography. Found the whole tour extremely interesting from start to finish. The host explained about the function of the different vats, The process of decanting from one to another and the reasons behind it. The coopers finish at 5pm so if you would like to watch them in action book you tour earlier. We were only able to see their workplace and hear about the dying skills! After the tour there were 3 glasses waiting to be tried complete with complimentary chocolate. No hard sell in the shop ant the end, in fact we decided to go back the next day to browse after making space in the car.

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Selina2018312

Jul 29, 2022

Engaging and illuminating. - Excellent tour of the cellars and tasting. Our guide was engaging and knowledgeable, we learnt a great deal about not only the history but also how it’s made. The port tasting was generous and illuminating. Worth going along.

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