Find and Book Wineries to Visit in Tejo

Lisbon Airport is the near located international airport to Santarem city and it is a good starting point to start to explore wineries in Tejo wine region.

The best way to experience wineries in Tejo is by driving a car visiting the vineyards directly. Most of the wineries are located close to Santarem city and you can easily get there from Lisbon following A1 (82 km) motorway. It takes around 1 hour to get to Santarem city.

The train is the easiest and fastest way to start your journey to wineries in Tejo. You can get a train line Lisbon-Santarem. The route starts from Oriente Station, where trains and buses from the airport arrive. Trains to Santarem depart every 30-40 minutes. 

It's always great to have a visit to wineries in Tejo as they keep their doors opened all year round for the guests. For those who prefer pleasant warm weather in a less crowded period spring is the perfect season for it.
In summer, when the days are longer there are endless possibilities to explore the cities around with their impressive architecture and enjoying a glass of wine.

Most of the wineries in Tejo are family-owned with long winemaking history. Some of them still produce wines using traditional methods. More recently, the traditional way of winemaking was combined with modern technologies and innovations.

Red Varieties: Touriga Nacional, Trincadeira, Castelao, Aragones, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
White Varieties: Fernao Pires, Arinto, Alvarinho, Verdelho, Viognier, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay.
Winemaking here is part of the cultural code, and the diversity of the soil brings to life an unimaginable number of approaches to the production of wine. In the red segment of wine, Touriga Nacional is very popular: local winemakers use it in monosort wines and together with other red autochthons. The white wines are dominated by the aromatic, slightly spicy Fernao Pires and Arinto and Alvarinho descended from Vinho Verde.

Some words to remember before you visit wineries in Tejo:

English	Portuguese
Wine	Vinho
Wine tasting	Prove De Vinho
Winery	Vinicola
Vineyard	Vinho
Wine cellar	Adega
Cheers!	Saude!

Wineries in the Tejo wine region offer numerous facilities such as kid activities, reduced mobile access, bus parking for group of tourists and most of them allow to have a pet. Check out the listing of wine tastings and tours in Tejo.