Lisbon Wine Tasting Day Trip: Two Wineries & 10 Portuguese Wines
Taste wines at two working wineries, not in a city tasting room
A full-day private wine tour from Lisbon visits two wineries in the surrounding region, where you walk the vineyards, see the barrel rooms and taste 10 wines (four at Adega Mãe and six at a small winery in Cheleiros) paired with lunch at a seafood restaurant and a visit to the baroque National Palace of Mafra. The guide is a wine lover who speaks English, Spanish or Portuguese and shapes the pace to suit your group.
Step-by-step itinerary
Wine tasting and village visit
- Pick up and travel to Adega Mãe winery
- Visit vineyards and learn about wine varieties
- Learn wine making process in barrel room
- Taste four wines (two red, two white)
- Lunch at nearby grilled seafood restaurant
- Drive to Cheleiros village
- Visit second winery and learn village history
- Tour wine process and barrel room
- Taste six wines with bread and olive oil
- Walk around village and visit medieval bridge
- AdegaMae Entry included 2h
- Manzwine Entry included 2h
- National Palace of Mafra passing by
What’s included
- Pickup from your Lisbon location.
- air-conditioned vehicle for the full day.
- visits to two working wineries with walks through the vineyards.
- tastings of 10 Portuguese wines across both stops.
- a visit to the National Palace of Mafra.
- snacks.
- and a private guide who is knowledgeable about Portuguese wine and shapes the day to your pace.
- Monday to Friday 09:00
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Spend a day tasting 10 Portuguese wines across two family-run wineries west of Lisbon, with visits to vineyards, barrel rooms and a medieval village.
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The experience
You're picked up in Lisbon and driven 40 minutes west to Adega Mãe, where the day starts in the vineyards. The guide walks you through the different wine varieties planted on the hills and what makes each one distinct, then moves into the winery building to show how the wine is made. The core of it happens in the barrel room, called the Temple room here, where the wine rests in wood. You taste four wines, two red and two white, learning what to look for in each one. By the time you leave, you've seen the whole process from soil to glass.
Lunch follows at a nearby restaurant that specializes in grilled seafood, a meal that typically costs 10–20 euros per person and is one of the concrete reasons people book this tour instead of a city-based tasting. After an hour to eat, you drive 30 minutes to Cheleiros, a small village where the second winery sits in a converted school building. The guide explains the village's history and why this wine project matters to the community, then takes you through the winemaking process again. This time ending with six wines, three red and three white. The tasting includes the Jampal, a single-variety grape that grows only in Portugal and nowhere else in the world, paired with homemade bread and olive oil. A short walk around the village follows, passing the medieval bridge of Cheleiros, which was built on top of an older Roman one.
The final stop is the National Palace of Mafra, the largest baroque palace in Portugal, built in the 18th century. It sits outside the usual tourist circuit, so you see it without the crowds that pack the more famous sites. The whole day runs seven hours from pickup to return.
Top questions
What languages is the tour guided in?
Live guide in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
What exactly do I taste at each winery?
Adega Mãe offers four wines (two reds and two whites) tasted in the barrel room after you've walked the vineyards and seen the production process. At the second winery in Cheleiros, you taste six wines (three reds, three whites) including the Jampal, a rare Portuguese single-variety grape, paired with homemade bread and olive oil.
Is lunch included in the price?
Lunch is not included, but the tour stops at a seafood restaurant near Adega Mãe where meals typically cost 10–20 euros per person. The guide can recommend dishes and help with ordering.
How far are the wineries from Lisbon?
Adega Mãe is about 40 minutes west of Lisbon by car. After lunch, it's a 30-minute drive to the second winery in the village of Cheleiros.
What is the National Palace of Mafra like?
The National Palace of Mafra is the largest and most impressive baroque palace in Portugal, built by King João V in the 18th century. It's located outside the main tourist areas, so you experience it without the crowds that gather at more famous monuments.
Operated by West Portugal Tours (WestPTours). Explorevia does not run this tour: we compare it with similar options, and you book it with our booking partner.
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Lisbon Wine Tasting Day Trip: Two Wineries & 10 Portuguese Wines
7h · EN · ES · PT · at your hotel
from € 645 per group
≈ US$ 725 in your currency
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