The Wine & Food Lover’s Guide to Portugal
Visit the best wineries, from small family producers to major multi-media tours. Few people in Britain have any idea how delicious Portuguese wines have become. Why the change? Modern winemakers, revamped wineries, spruced-up vineyards, and numerous unique, fine, flavoursome grapes that can stand up proudly against any in the world. Internationally-renowned wine critic Charles Metcalfe has tasted every wine in this book. And no one has paid anything to be included. The principle has been to choose truly recommendable wine producers, restaurants and places to stay.
Learn where the wine trade eats… This book highlights Portugal’s new-wave restaurants, chefs who are creating dishes with modern flair from fine local ingredients, flirting with traditional culinary themes; it also pinpoints the best traditional restaurants, and details the local produce and cuisines of each of Portugal’s regions.
Nineteen maps, with digital terrain modelling to show the lie of the land, provide the most detailed mapping of the Portuguese vineyards to date, locating visitable wineries and places to eat and stay.