On Nov 11 it was time to say goodbye to Lisbon. We rented a car, drove across the Portugese Golden Gate Bridge, and headed towards Evora. We stopped in the little town of Azeitao enroute on the advice from Andre of super duper wine dinner fame. Besides being a cute little town, there are two major wineries here….we had no idea how major one of them really was! They literally cornered the US market on bad wine in the 60’s and 70’s!
We saw this bottle turned into a lamp at Jose Maria Da Fonseca, the original winery that produced Lancers, one of the worst stains on the world of wine in history! They still make this stuff, although they have spruced up the bottle a bit.
We tried a few of their wines (not the Lancers), but were not impressed with any of them. Go figure!
Nearly across the street (this town is very small) is Bacalhoa Vinhos de Portugal.
The owner has an obsession with painting everything blue. We love blue mind you, but this guy takes it just a little too far.
The owner is also a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. It was very strange to see this in the middle of Portugal.
The wines were just ok. Perhaps if they focused a little more on wine and a little less on blue paint….
They had a really old olive tree planted here that they transplanted from a nearby area where they were building a dam.
