Tag: Travel

Chef’s Table – from Portugal with love

Starches Meats & Cheese with Olives

Bread presunto cheese & marinated olives

Paired with Due la Deu Monção e Melgaço— Alvarinho — Vinho Verde

Francesinha

Ham, sausage and roast beef, toasted white loaf, quetjo Flamengo molho de francesinha

Paired with Super Bock — Portugal

Feijoda

Vegetarian stew with beans, onions, tomatoes, turnip, potato, kale & cabbage

Paired with Castello d’Alba—Douro

Bacalhau & Alentejo Porco Preto

Salted cod with potatoes, onions, tomatoes, olives, garlic & olive oil with grilled black pork marinated in flavours present throughout the Alentejo region of Portugal

Paired with Quinta do Espirito Santo—Lisboa

Pastel de Nata Duo

Traditional nata with lemon & cinnamon Port flavoured nata

Paired with Da Foz Tawny Port—Douro

California Wine Trip – June 17-24, 2017

To begin my recap of my vacation and wine study, I will inform you, the reader, that I took extensive notes on the wine part of the vacation and lost them all to a mishap with melting ice and non-waterproof ink. My apologies that the notes on my wine tastings are written based on memory – 7 wineries in two days.

So that I don’t tire my readers I have broken my travels into four parts:

  • Los Angeles and San Francisco
  • Wine and Dine
  • Sonoma
  • Napa Valley, Central Coast, Los Angeles and Home

I hope that my notes and photos capture the essence of the trip.

Unfortunately, I also lost my cell phone at the theme park on the last day of the trip. Thankfully I was able to recover the photos.

I hope these blogs are an entertaining and educating read and if you have any questions about the regions and sub regions I visited, the wineries, or wines or any other part of my trip, feel free to ask me at the clubhouse as I would love to re-live the experience!

Oh, and how could I forget? These were all the wines I purchased, only three made it home, and all of those have been drunk with friends over wonderful pairing meals.