Portugal is known for their green wine, most of which is made not far from Porto. Here’s a fun question: Why is green wine green? Is it because the wine is “fresh”, or not aged very long? Is it because the region has a lot of rain and humidity, making the region look green year round? Is it because the color of the wine is green? The answer is yes. (However, the region also makes red wine. One can have red green wine.) The vineyard we visited has a 25 acre garden. It’s absolutely fabulous.

Here’s a whimsical guard house.

After that wine tasting, we moved on to the Duro Valley where Port wine as well as table wine is made. They don’t have a huge garden, but they do have vineyards.

And for certain types of wine, they still stomp the grapes.

They have a wine cellar, but the summer temperature is too hot for the wine. Back in the day, they transported the wine by river boat to the cooler areas in the north. Over the years, they switched to moving the win on trains, then trucks.

After the tour, we had another 2-hour lunch. The food was quite good. Most of our party liked the white table wine the most.
I hope this finds everyone doing well.