Quick Details
Join a truly local Goat Cheese Making Experience in Mendiga, Leiria — a hands-on farm tour where you learn how artisanal goat cheese is made, step by step. After a warm welcome at the farm, you’ll take part in a guided workshop using fresh goat milk and traditional techniques, with clear explanations from your host throughout the process. The experience finishes with a tasting of cheeses and goat milk products with wine, so you can compare flavors and textures. A relaxed, authentic activity ideal for couples, families and small groups. Small groups welcome, up to 20 guests.
Adult & Child
Ages 13 & Older
€ 41
Child
Ages 04 to 12
€ 26
Young Child
Ages 03 & Younger
Free
About the Goat Cheese Making Experience
Join a truly local Goat Cheese Making Experience in Mendiga (Leiria)—a hands-on farm tour where you learn how artisanal goat cheese is made, step by step. After a warm welcome at the farm, you’ll take part in a guided workshop using fresh goat milk and traditional techniques, with clear explanations from your host throughout the process.
This is a relaxed, authentic activity that connects you to rural Portuguese life, ideal for couples, families and small groups looking for something different near Lisbon. The experience finishes with a delicious tasting of cheeses and goat milk products with wine, so you can compare flavors and textures and understand what makes mountain-style goat cheese so distinctive.
What’s Included
- Welcome to the farm
- Workshop of making artisanal cheese
- Tasting of cheeses and goat milk products with wine
What’s Not Included
- Transportation to and from the farm (private transfer available on request)
- Additional cheese or product purchases
- Gratuities for the host
Itinerary
- Welcome – Arrival and welcome at the farm
- Cheese-Making Workshop – Learn the traditional process using fresh goat milk
- Tasting – Sample cheeses and goat milk products paired with wine
Highlights
A focused, hands-on cheese lesson. Without the added mountain walk, this experience puts the full focus on the cheese-making process itself, start to finish.
Traditional techniques, explained clearly. Your host walks you through each step using fresh goat milk, making the process easy to follow even with no prior experience.
A tasting built for comparison. Sample different cheeses and goat milk products paired with wine, understanding what makes mountain-style goat cheese distinctive.
A quick, authentic taste of rural Portugal. At just 2 hours, it’s an easy way to experience genuine countryside life near Lisbon without a full day commitment.
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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How is this different from the Walking with Goats & Cheese Experience?
This version focuses purely on the cheese-making workshop and tasting, without the mountain herding walk — a shorter, more focused 2-hour experience.Do I need any experience to take part?
No experience is necessary — your host guides you through the process step by step.Is this suitable for children?
Yes, this is a family-friendly experience, with a reduced rate for children aged 4–12 and free entry for children 3 and under.Is transportation included?
Transportation is not included, but private transfer can be arranged on request.What languages is the tour offered in?
The tour is available in Portuguese and English.What is the minimum and maximum group size?
A minimum party of 2 is required to book. Groups of up to 20 are welcome.Can I cancel or reschedule my booking?
Please refer to our Terms and Conditions for our policy.Are dietary restrictions accommodated?
Let us know about any allergies or dietary needs at the time of booking.
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Beautiful small farm doing all things from making goat cheese to jams from her own fruit trees and olive oil from her olive trees (and wine from extended family)! Guests are welcomed into the goat cheese-making process: milking, curdling, boiling, and molding/shaping. Umbelina provides a beautiful display for tasting the products. Cheese, homemade bread, olive oil, jams of all kinds!!, cheese (fresh and aged). Seriously blown away by how delicious all the food was — cheese was so flavorful, jams paired perfectly. We milked the goats, hung out with/fed the nearby baby goats, and got a tour of the rest of the farm — fruit trees, garden, rabbits, chickens, sheep. Umbelina is lovely and gracious; it was a truly special day!!
– May 28, 2026 – Verified booking
We had a lovely morning from start to finish. We met the sheep,chickens, rabbits then headed to the goat pasture. Fed and milked the goats alongside Umbelina. Back to the house to make cheese and have a snack. It was a great farm experience. Recommend to anyone interested in the fresh cheese process!
– May 25, 2026 – Verified booking
We had a wonderful experience with Umbelina. Not only did we get to meet, milk, feed and walk with her goats - which was so much fun. We also got to bottle feed a baby lamb who was not getting milk from its mother, and see all her other animals & her day to day lifestyle with them. She also went thru the goat cheese making with us, letting us get hands on (under her watchful eye 😁). I would recommend a visit to her small farm.
– Janeiro 07, 2026 – Verified booking
I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Portugal 3 times and this is one of my favorite experiences by far. We learn so much about the land, her goats and the goat cheese process. We hiked through the beautiful mountain side with her goats, milked them, fed them, and finished the experience at her home. There we tried her different cheeses (delicious) fresh goats milk, bread, and different homemade marmalades. The farmer showed us how to make soft goat cheese from beginning to end. Such a cool process. I would do this experience over and over again. She is lovely and it’s an incredible insight to what it’s like to live like a local in the mountains.
– September 04, 2025 – Verified booking
We enjoyed everything and had a great time as a group in the company of goats. We were apprehensive that the goats could be stressed because we were a group, but everything went well, the bravest could even give them "parties" and some food. We enjoyed taking the mountain route, to see the goats by hand, the snack that was prepared with a lot of love and affection by D. Umbelina, especially to eat the cheese. We enjoyed looking at the steps of making goat cheese from the beginning to the packing. We highlighted D.Umbelina's friendliness to us and felt like coming back next year. On behalf of the whole group thank you very much
– October 25, 2025 – Verified booking
Very interesting experience, very friendly host and beautiful location with the goats grazing in the middle of the thousand-year-old olive trees, all in a listed park.
– November 07, 2025 – Verified bookingShare your experience
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