A terroir like this needs not only to be explained, but felt and lived! By feeling and living with Art of Wine you'll be able to have Fábio Rocha's explanation. A 10 years experienced winemaker that after a long journey being a "travelling winemaker" (Australia, Chile, New Zealand and several Portuguese wine regions), decided not only to produce wine in Pico Island but also to offer a complete experience for those who visit the Island. With a degree in Food Engineering and a Master in Viticulture and Winemaking, Fábio will be a singular source of information, aiming to explain everything that leads a wine from this region to "taste the way it tastes". Geology, Meteorology, Biology, Microbiology, Viticulture and of course... Enology, a lot of Winemaking is what you will learn with Fábio, and so making your days on Pico Island much richer, and complete.

You will learn everything about Pineapple production and the azorean pineapples in a wonderful pineapple tour arround glass greenhouses from Herdade do Ananás. After this, you will taste the unique pineapple wine made in Europe with local cheeses in the garden, a wonderful local experience! Explore azorean pineapples!

Enjoy a relaxing wine tasting experience and discover the rich diversity of Pico's wine landscape. Begin the tour with a pickup from the Hotel Caravelas in Madalena before walking through the vineyards of Criação Velha. Next, visit a regional wine laboratory and meet a professional winemaking engineer. After lunch at a local restaurant, the group will travel to São Roque on the North Coast. On the way, the group will pass former wine production sites including Cachorro and Lajido. End the tour in a local adega (or wine cellar) of a local producer, and taste the finest wines Pico Island has to offer.

Taste the wine and walk along the volcanic terroir where the grapes are ripened in this private tour on the Island of Terceira. Enjoy the magnificent landscape of this parish in the north of the island and visit the famous natural lava rock ocean pools. Make a quick visit to Praia da Vitória, a small town by the beach. Relax as you savor several local wines along with some island specialties. Soak in the charming atmosphere in a family garden. Get an idea of the range of flavors on the island. Bask in a unique region that produces rare volcanic wine. Take in the romance that surrounds wines grown in soils born of molten earth and ash. Shock your palate with something different.

Get to know local people and life in Praia da Vitória during a dinner at a private Azorean home and garden. Feel like an Azorean as you immerse yourself in the island and its people. Learn about local culture, traditions, history, and gastronomy from the source. After pickup, get welcomed into the local family’s home. Interact with the family and enjoy drinks and finger food during dinner preparation. Once prepared, enjoy dinner in the shade of the vineyard’s pergola on a pleasant summer afternoon or in a characteristic living room, depending on the weather. Typically, a barbecue is served with local fine meats and sausages accompanied by Portuguese wine (mainland) or Azorean wine. For dessert, savor one of the many typical sweets with coffee or dessert wine. This experience is not just about the food (you can go to a restaurant for that) but is also about the interaction with the locals, the best way to learn about the island’s culture, history, and traditions. 

After pick-up from your accommodation on Terceira your guide will take you to see the major sightseeing spots in the island as well as a series of lesser known spots off the beaten track. Enjoy an outdoor lunch with local foods, cheeses, breads, wines and moonshines. Other stops introduce you to further local delicacies. The tour continues with the interior of the Island, on this tour you not only taste our foods, wines, moonshines, but you also get to see a great deal of the island from a different perspective. End the tour conveniently back at your accomodation.

Savor rare volcanic wines which have been produced in a volcanic terroir. Let the rich volcanic flavors that only eight regions in the world can produce linger on your palate. Sample some of the 33 grape varieties that are currently authorized on the Azores with only three of them being autochthonous (verdelho, arinto dos Açores, terrantez do pico). Be welcomed by an authentic Azorean family that will guide you on your wine and food tasting journey in a relaxed party atmosphere. Sit back in the garden, or cozy dining room and imagine the romance of drinking wine grown from molten earth and ash. Experience the intriguing high acidity flavors and character of these wines. Distinguish the salinity, and stony hints in the wine. Satisfy your thirst for new flavors, exotic local varieties, and traditional wine styles.

If you want to have a real Private unique experience of visiting a winery, having a traditional lunch with our traditional foods at the winery, walk around the winery or just sit back enjoy the breath taking view with an amaizing local local wine, "verdelho", be able to purchase these unique wines, or/and even be able to purchase a vine, that will be yours and the winery will send you every year wine from your vine, your own wine from Terceira Island, be able to visit the most popular view points on the island, and go to the interior of the island where you will be in contact with nature at its natural stage, visit hidden spots, then this tour is for you.