Category: Portugal/Spain, Fall 2018

We heard from various sources in Evora that we should hit Quetzal winery on our way south to the Algarve region of Portugal.  This place is about as out of the way as you can get!  The car couldn’t find it, but fortunately google android could.  We had to drive through a community of about 400 people who gave us the strangest looks (our jeep is VERY dirty after visiting the megalithic sites).  The winery was beautiful, and the wines were very good.  Wish we could send a couple cases home!

The Antao Vaz was excellent!  So expensive at 8.60!  This wine would crush nearly any white wine under $30 in CA.

We loved this place so much last night that we went back again tonight.  It was just as good, and I can only wish we were staying in Evora one more night.

To appease my good friend Snide Lee (see comments section of my previous Botequim post), tonight we had the Ham Pata Negra (very thing slices of black pig), the Roasted Cheese with Marjoram (OMG), and the Pork Lombinhos Grilled.  The pork came with a salad and house made chips.  Yum to the Nth degree!  If you ever find yourself in Evora, you must come here for dinner at least once!

It was pretty much Americans and Canadians.  Julie, our new friend from San Francisco that we met wine tasting today, joined us.  We met a couple from Canada, and another couple from Pittsburgh who are headed to the same hotel as us in the Algarve just one day behind us.  Everybody here is super friendly….must be the Portugese running off!