Top Bento Goncalves Wine Tasting Tours

Most Vale dos Vinhedos visits race through three or four wineries in a day with brief tastings at each. This single-winery experience runs the opposite way—choose six wines from a menu with a variety of options, then taste them all in one sitting with a sommelier or enologist (winemaking expert) guiding the discussion of grapes, regions, and what makes each varietal distinct.

Most Vale dos Vinhedos tours include lunch, but usually in a restaurant located between winery stops—served separately from the wines. This four-course meal at a family-run winery in Faria Lemos does things differently—each course is a family recipe paired to a specific wine (made on-site), with family members present at the meal to discuss what's in your glass and how the winery operates.

Vale dos Vinhedos's grape harvest runs for a short window each Brazilian summer, with the wineries opening their fields to visitors who want to participate rather than just taste. From Bento Gonçalves, go straight to the harvest itself—picking grapes and pressing them by foot, while listening to Italian songs traditional to the immigrant communities that founded the vineyards.