I'm getting mixed information when trying to research about the Porto Wine Museum in Porto. Some reports indicate that the wine museum is permanently closed, but another report from Time Out (2019) indicates that the museum is or will be newly re-located. I can't find either the museum's official website or more definitive information.
Does anyone know whether the Porto Wine Museum still exists, where it is, its website, and is it worth visiting?
It is worth visiting if it is open. You pay for a card that goes into the machine and you get your port tastings. If you do not use all your card, I think you can get money back, but the whole affair is in the range of 10€, so no big bucks.
Also all the port warehouses have tastings. Don’t limit yourself. All the big names are there.
I prefer ruby port and my wife prefers tawny. So a good combo to finish a flight.
Thank you for that insight! Could you give me the address of the Port Wine Museum? I haven’t been able to locate it with certainty.
Update: We just returned from Portugal (ok, about 3 weeks ago). We never got to the Porto Wine Museum, but I think what was called the Porto Wine Museum is now part of the WOW museum which is across the river from Porto in the city of Gaia. We didn't make it to the WOW museum either, but will next time, although some people have said it's kind of a tourist trap. Don't know....
We did visit Calem wine lodge and joined one of their tours. Hmm...I was rather disappointed with the tour. The tour includes like a 15 minute self-guided section of a museum (that part was fun and fine) and then a much longer part which is guided. The guided part is rather terrible, at least the one we had. A young guide went on and on about different stories but hardly anything about the history of Port wine and how the wine is made or anything about the barrels that we were standing in front of. After this guided portion, we got to do some tasting which was fine. It's the guided part that was very mediocre. Maybe other wine lodges offer better tours, though I'm not sure. We only did Calem for tour.
