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Highlights
- Meet your guide at Cockburn’s Gaia Lodge and step straight into a working cellar packed with thousands of seasoned oak casks.
- Hear 200 years of Cockburn’s unconventional history while seeing how its coopers still repair ageing barrels by hand.
- Walk a seemingly endless barrel gallery, then taste in a timber-roofed room divided from the ageing cellar by just a glass wall.
- Pick the classic house favourites, track Tawny ageing across three pours, or add the premium flight and its chocolate pairings.
- The premium option teams three selections with tropical, citrus-spiced, and berry chocolates chosen to play off different flavour profiles.
Your Experience
Some Port tastings begin with a glass. This one begins where the barrels are built, repaired, and filled. Walk through Cockburn's working lodge with an expert guide before settling into the Main Tasting Room.
Getting started
Meet your guide at Cockburn's Lodge and check in for your tour. From there, you'll step inside one of Porto's most historic working Port lodges, walking through the cooperage and ageing cellars before taking your seat in the Main Tasting Room for your selected tasting experience.
What to expect
Cockburn's Cellars
Cockburn's is where Port is still crafted. As you move through the lodge, you'll see oak casks stacked high in the ageing cellars and visit Vila Nova de Gaia's last working cooperage, where skilled coopers continue a centuries-old trade by repairing the barrels that shape every vintage.
Features:
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Meet the coopers: See one of Porto's rarest traditions still alive as master coopers inspect, repair, and prepare the oak casks that influence every bottle of Cockburn's Port.
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Walk among the casks: Pass through vast ageing cellars where thousands of barrels quietly mature, filling the lodge with the unmistakable aroma of ageing Port.
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Find your perfect pour: Choose between Cockburn's signature classics, beautifully aged Tawnies, or a premium tasting featuring Quinta dos Canais Vintage and handcrafted chocolate pairings.
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Taste where it ages: Settle into the Main Tasting Room overlooking the ageing cellar, where every pour comes with a front-row view of the barrels that spent decades shaping it.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- 2-hour guided tour of Cockburn's Lodge
- English-speaking guide
- 3 classic port tastings (as per option selected):
- Cockburn's Special Reserve, Cockburn's Late Bottled Vintage Port and Cockburn's 10 Years Old.
- 3 selected Tawny tastings (as per option selected):
- Cockburn's Fine Tawny, Cockburn's 10 Year Old Tawny and Cockburn's 20 Year Old Tawny
- Premium tastings with pairings (as per option selected):
- Cockburn's Fine White, Cockburn's 20 Year Old Tawny, and Cockburn's Quinta dos Canais Vintage
- 3 chocolates: passion fruit chocolate, yuzu/cinnamon chocolate, raspberry chocolate
- Transportation
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Ticket Delivery
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts.