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Plan your wine trip

Tell us where you’re leaving from, how many days you have, the month and how you want to get around there. The house shows the destinations that fit, with what’s happening in the vineyard that month, and builds the itinerary day by day, with the wineries, the distances and what it costs.

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A wine trip, no fuss

A good wine trip isn’t the one that visits the most wineries: it’s the one that leaves time to take in each one. Four questions settle almost everything: where you’re leaving from, how many days you have, what month you’re going and how you’ll get from one winery to the next. The rest is fine-tuning.

When to go

The harvest, when the grapes are picked, is the liveliest time in the vineyard: in the Southern Hemisphere it falls between January and April, in the Douro in September, and in the Vale do São Francisco it happens all year round. Outside it there’s the green vineyard of spring, the winter pruning and the fireplace of the cold highlands. The wine year shows, month by month, what happens in each destination.

How many wineries a day

Two, with lunch in between. Three becomes a rush; four is a waste of good wine. Almost every winery asks for a reservation: the house marks on the itinerary which ones take walk-ins.

Getting around between wineries

In the big regions the distances add up and the glass fills: a driver or a booked tour is the norm, not a luxury. Going by car, agree on who drives. A glass of water between glasses of wine makes the whole trip better.

What it costs

The house adds up, per person and per day, what you spend once you’re there: tastings, lunch at the winery and transportation. The ranges come from the wineries’ and tour operators’ own websites, with the month they were read; prices in pesos, dollars or euros are converted to reais at the Central Bank of Brazil exchange rate. Flights and hotels are left out: they change all the time, and the house doesn’t guess.

The house’s destinations

Where the data comes from

Every fact in the planner has a source: tourism boards, winery associations, each winery’s website, airports and airlines. Road distances are calculated on OpenStreetMap (OSRM). No winery pays to be here, and the order is by zone, never by ranking. See something wrong? Let us know below.

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