Quinta Da Pacheca

Mid afternoon, we headed to a small city called Regua, where we stopped at an old train station that had been converted into a wine bar. Here we had a traditional Portuguese pastry, Pastel de Nata, a creamy custard filling baked inside a flaky, multi- layered crust and, of course, a glass of wine.

Then we were off to Quinta Da Pacheca. A very fancy hotel/restaurant/ winery. After touring the facility, we went for our wine tasting with one of the bottles being an 85 Euro's (dollars) of Port and got to witness a wedding!

Once we were done our tasting, it was time to do some grape stomping. After crushing in a traditional crusher, the grapes are taken to the lagare room for foot treading for 3hrs on the 1st day. They do this because they are able to extract with the greatest delicacy everything that exists in the skin to have the highest quality wines.
An example is Pacheca Lagar No.1

We then had our supper in an 18th-century cellar...

Starters:
- Harvest soup (pasta, red beans, and cabbage)
- Petingas (pickled sardines)
- Rojoes (pork meat)
- Smoked sausages (ham and loin)
- Simple salad (lettuce, tomato, carrot, corn and cucumber)

Main dishes (2 dishes served)
-Grilled octopus with punched potatoes and sautéed turnip greens
-Veal cheek cooked at low temperature with masked potatoes

Desserts:
-Traditional mil cream
-Portuguese sweet rice
-Aletria (sweet pasta)Read more