I visited Quinta de Marrocos during a wine tour in the Douro Valley region! Quinta de Marrocos is…read morea small winery and hotel! The tour consisted of us seeing how the grapes are crushed (still by some people) although they have the technology..the traditional ways are followed by Quinta de Marrocos! We I visited it was harvest season so there were humans crushing grapes in 4 hour shifts...what?!? After we saw how the grapes were crushed and prepared to be fermented...we saw the wine barrels and of course ...were led to the deck with a beautiful scenic view to taste the port wines and other offerings! The 10 year Tawny was a favorite of mine! This tour was pretty good and I enjoyed the time spent here at Quinta de Marrocos!

As part of our Douro River Valley tour with Cooltours Oporto we stopped here for a tour of their…read morewine/port making operations. Our guide did a lovely job of explaining their process for making both their wines and port. Given it was harvest time we got to see the vats filled with grapes which was a real treat. We then sampled some of the product which was very good. Overall a nice tour with stunning views of the river below. Glad this was one of our stops.