Oh how wrong we were!!! It bucketed down on and off all week in May in the Algarve and rarely got above 18 degrees. Not what we were expecting at all.
It did however give me chance to try Portugese wines - something I had never really done before.
We drove to a couple of vineyards on a Sunday, including Cliff Richard's place, but alas neither of them were open.
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| Cliff's wine was at the Festival |
We were very lucky to have stumbled across a wine festival in the nearby town of Albufeira. For a mere 3 euros we got a commemorative wine glass and free tastes from around 50 different wineries across Portugal. Result!
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| There were some Sexy wines... |
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| and some consumer based wines (with a bit of swearing!) |
We spent a couple of hours trying a number of different wines across all price points. Generally the wines from the Douro were the best, and my new fave grape is Touriga Nacional. Used in Port, it produces full bodied, inky, black fruit wines full of flavour and high tannins. I loved them!!!
We got to try some of Cliff's wine, which was fine, but overpriced I thought, and there was much better stuff available. We picked up plenty of bottles between 3-10 Euros to take back to the villa to enjoy in the rain...
I was one happy bunny...
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| some of the wineries exhibiting at the event |
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