{"id":94608387,"date":"2012-01-11T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wine-travel-portugal\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:14:32","slug":"wine-travel-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wine-travel-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Travel: Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wine Travel: Portugal, Flickr: Francisco Antunes\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/1\/WineTravelPortugal.jpg\" alt=\"Wine Travel: Portugal, Flickr: Francisco Antunes\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Port Wine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Portugal, doubtless, is synonymous with port wine. Rich, deep and red, it\u2019s what you sip following an incredibly hefty steak, preferably with your feet propped up and warmed by a roaring fire. Well, there\u2019s a world of port beyond tawny and ruby. In fact, I was converted to white port recently, and I\u2019ll never go back! When you book your next cheap tickets to Lisbon or Porto, the two largest cities in Portugal, make sure you add a winery tour or two \u2026 and definitely find yourself a bottle of white port!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUnlike the red port to which you are likely accustomed, white port is meant to be consumed cold, so be sure to chill it before that first pour. Of course, you\u2019ll learn this when you travel to Portugal and see for yourself how it is made and served.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nYour top destination for the ins and outs of wine in Portugal is the Douro Valley. The Douro River\u2019s mouth is at Porto, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. In the region, be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderfulland.com\/pacheca\/index_en.htm#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quinta de Pacheca<\/a>, which has daily guided tours, a full restaurant and tastings (which have to be booked in advance).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTo get off the beaten port path and see what goes into making the white version, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramospinto.pt\/visitas.aspx?ID=23&amp;lingua=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ramos Pinto Port Winery<\/a>, which dates back to 1880. Tour the wine cellar \u2013 Ramos Pinto is open all year long \u2013 and be sure to sample the goods! You\u2019ll wind up with a taste for something unusual, not to mention a new perspective on port wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSince you\u2019re entering new territory with white port (unless you\u2019re already lucky enough to have discovered what so many of us have overlooked for so long), be sure to ask for pairing ideas. And when you get home, put a bottle in the refrigerator right away \u2013 it will be colder and ready to serve sooner!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWine travel changes your perspective, introducing you to tastes and ideas you probably wouldn\u2019t see otherwise. Book a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-portugal-pt\">cheap flight to Portugal<\/a><\/strong> today, and get ready to turn everything you know about port on its head. Sure, you\u2019ll want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ib6aWUBhmf8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see how the various red ports are produced<\/a> \u2026 and you\u2019ll definitely want to taste more than a few. Make sure you leave some room on your itinerary for white port, though. It\u2019s the sort of find that will make your friends interested in the stories you have from your wine travel vacation!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wine Travel Series<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vilavelosa\/5196302462\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Francisco Antunes <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Wine &nbsp; Portugal, doubtless, is synonymous with port wine. Rich, deep and red, it\u2019s what you sip following an incredibly hefty steak, preferably with your feet propped up and warmed by a roaring fire. Well, there\u2019s a world of port beyond tawny and ruby. In fact, I was converted to white port recently, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97199147,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608387\/revisions\/97199147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}