Thursday, June 29, 2006

Who put the Port in the Port-U-Portugal?

Our last Portuguese stop, Porto, is the country's second-largest city, but its undisputed cultural capital. Great, cheap food, friendly (mostly English-speaking) citizens and clean lodging would have been enough to make us happy, but the city's biggest draw is its port wine. Port, Portugal's best-known export, is warehoused and distributed around the world from Porto's 20-or-so warehouses, most of whom welcome visitors. We felt welcome, so we visited (no, not ALL 20. Geez.)

Port, like all wine, ranges from the cheapest cheapies to several hundred dollars a bottle. This tasting is a range of 10-year-old tawny ports from different producers. The customs laws prevented us from spending our house down payment, and after two days Megan had tasted quite enough port. Were Brandon a single guy, he could be there still.

3 Comments:

At Wed Jul 05, 09:22:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

GREAT pictures guys! Loved the Portugese houses (wild) a few entries back, and your port-sampler picture looks like it came from a tourist brochure. You sure it didnt?

 
At Mon Jul 10, 12:01:00 PM, Blogger Brandon_Megan said...

I know, our sucky little camera is kicking ass. 750+ photos already.

 
At Tue Jul 11, 07:15:00 AM, Blogger Furious Wang said...

makes you wonder when they switched over. You just have to figure that they use real hammers at some point.

 

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