Set on Rua de Serpa Pinto in the historic central Vila Nova de Gaia port wine production district immediately south of central Porto, the Cockburn s Port Lodge is one of the largest and most historically distinguished continuing port wine cellars anywhere in the wider Vila Nova de Gaia historic wine district. The substantial wider port wine company was originally founded in 1815 by the Scottish merchant Robert Cockburn and has been operating continuously across the past two centuries as one of the principal continuing British-tradition Portuguese port wine producers. The substantial wider Cockburn s company was originally founded in 1815 by Robert Cockburn, a Scottish merchant who had originally arrived in Portugal as a serving soldier under the Duke of Wellington during the principal Peninsular War campaigns between 1808 and 1813. The substantial original commercial focus of the wider Cockburn s company was the substantial principal supply of port wine to the principal continuing British market, which had developed substantially as the principal continuing international port wine market across the principal previous century following the famous 1703 Methuen Treaty between Britain and Portugal. The substantial wider Cockburn s company subsequently developed into one of the principal continuing port wine producers across the principal nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The substantial principal commercial peak of the wider Cockburn s company was the substantial late twentieth-century domination of the principal continuing British port wine market, with the substantial wider Cockburn s Special Reserve port wine being the principal continuing best-selling port wine in the wider British market continuously across the principal 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The substantial wider Vila Nova de Gaia port lodge is the largest single wooden port cellar facility anywhere in the wider historic central Vila Nova de Gaia district. The substantial wider cellar facility holds approximately 6,518 individual seasoned oak barrels of maturing port wine alongside the substantial equivalent of approximately a further 10,056 barrels in oak vats. The substantial wider Cockburn s facility is one of the substantial continuing diminishing number of major port wine producers that continue the substantial principal continuing tradition of ageing port wine in the substantial historic central Vila Nova de Gaia rather than the alternative substantial Douro Valley facilities. The substantial wider Cockburn s lodge was substantially renovated and opened to the public for guided commercial tours in 2017 under the substantial new Symington Family Estates ownership of the wider Cockburn s company since 2010. The substantial standard guided commercial tour typically lasts approximately one hour and includes the substantial principal visit to the substantial wider cellar facility, the substantial demonstration of the principal continuing traditional cooperage operation and the substantial guided tasting of three or four individual representative individual port wines from the substantial wider Cockburn s commercial product range.

Type: Activity

Address: Rua de Serpa Pinto 346, Porto, Portugal

Opening Date: 01/01/1815