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Goat Cheese Making Experience

Starting at €84 | 2 Hours | Parties of 2 to 40 | Mangualde

Quick Details

Step into the charming countryside near Viseu for an authentic goat cheese making experience. Meet the farm’s friendly goats and enjoy a guided visit through the organic vegetable garden and goat herd. Learn how to milk a goat, taste fresh goat’s milk, and craft your own fresh goat cheese using traditional methods. Afterward, relax and savor a tasting of your cheese with homemade bread, seasonal pastries and local honey, paired with refreshing drinks. You’ll leave with great memories and your very own fresh goat cheese to take home. Ages 12+, with a reduced rate for children 4–11.

Adult

(12+ years)

€ 84

Child

(04-11 years)

€ 34

Make your own fresh goat cheese near Viseu!

Step into the charming countryside near Viseu for an authentic goat cheese making experience. Meet the friendly goats and enjoy a guided visit through the organic vegetable garden and the goat herd. Learn how to milk a goat, taste fresh goat’s milk, and craft your own fresh goat cheese using traditional methods. Afterwards, relax and savor a tasting of your cheese with homemade bread, seasonal pastries, and local honey, paired with refreshing drinks. You’ll leave not only with great memories but also with your very own fresh goat cheese to take home. Perfect for families, food lovers, and anyone curious about artisanal cheese-making.

What is included

  • Meet the Goats & Garden Tour — Stroll through the organic vegetable garden and meet the farm’s friendly goats
  • Goat Milking & Tasting — Watch and take part in the goat milking process, then taste fresh goat’s milk straight from the source
  • Cheese Making Workshop — Learn the secrets of making fresh goat cheese, from milk to curd to shaping your cheese
  • Cheese & Pastry Tasting — Enjoy your fresh cheese with homemade bread, cheese puff pastry with honey (or seasonal treats), and refreshing drinks
  • Take Your Cheese Home — Receive a fresh goat cheese you made yourself as a tasty souvenir

What’s Not Included

  • Transportation to and from the farm (private transfer available on request)
  • Gratuities for the host

Itinerary

  1. Welcome & Garden Tour – Stroll through the organic vegetable garden and meet the goats
  2. Goat Milking – Take part in milking and taste fresh goat’s milk
  3. Cheese-Making Workshop – Learn to turn milk into your own fresh cheese
  4. Tasting – Enjoy your cheese with homemade bread, pastries, honey and drinks
  5. Take Home – Leave with the fresh goat cheese you made yourself

Highlights

A genuine hands-on cheese lesson. From milking to curd to shaping, you’ll take part in every step of turning milk into cheese.

Taste the milk before it becomes cheese. Sampling fresh goat’s milk straight from the source is a rare, direct connection most tastings skip.

A homemade spread to finish. Bread, seasonal pastries and local honey round out the tasting into a proper farm-to-table moment.

A cheese you actually take home. Leaving with the fresh cheese you made yourself is a genuinely tasty, memorable souvenir.

Transportation

  • Not included – contact us if you need private transfer

Meeting point

  • After booking we will send all the details of the farm, location (meeting point) and contact.

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Fantastic experience! J Koochi

Fantastic experience for my Dad’s birthday treat today with Joana and Jaol, passionate people who are so lovely, friendly and informative, caring and just lovely 😊 beautiful Portuguese people 👍🏽 👏🏽

– August 08, 2025 – Verified booking
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Great experience! Manuel Silva

Great experience to get away from the urban frenzy. All staff are extremely attentive. My daughter loved feeding the farm animals with Senhora Joana.

– August 26, 2025 – Verified booking
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I really recommend it to anyone! Nuno Aparicio

We went for a Shepherd's Cheese Experience, and it was marvelous! The staff is great, the farm his beautiful. I really recommend it to anyone!

– October 05, 2025 – Verified booking

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