The next day starts with yet-another wine tasting.
This is a more modern winery using steel vats for some of the aging.
Soito is the winery; Dao is the region.
The tops in the second picture are deceiving, we go downstairs to see the rest of the vats.
Only part of the aging is done in steel
Then the rest of it is done in oak barrels, of course.
The bottles on the left are sparkling wine.
Back in their showroom, we contemplate whether to try to bring some home in the luggage.
We walk across the street and up this path.
They show us where they are grafting new varietals onto 100-year-old vines.
Here are some of the workers doing the grafting.
Back behind the vineyards is a manor house that is also a B&B.
Some of us sit down here by the pool...
...and some sit in this outside room.
The appetizers: grapes, cheese, olives, walnuts, raspberries.
Hooray! More salad.
This a family-owned operation, and the mother cooked the best bacalhau (cod) that we had on the trip.
She also made this homemade cheese with pumpkin jam, and of course the ever-preset pastel de nata
Our tour guide Luciano (in white T-shirt) with the family that put on the lunch.
On to our next hotel, the Mar de Ar in Evora.
The lobby of the hotel looks like barrel vaults.
Kimberly in the window of our room. This one is nice and spacious, but rather rustic.
We went out to a pizza place nearby for dinner.
It was done in the style of an American 50's diner with Elvis, Route 66, Marilyn, etc.
