Having a week away with the family next week..

Are we gonna be able to find good cheap wine..?

Yes

Mateus Rosé. Can’t go wrong mate. Keep the bottle – makes a lovely holder for a candle on the balcony in the evening.

Among local Vinho Verdia, the Eu Odeio Crianca has some followers but can get a little sharp at times.

Good. I too shall be researching vinho verde in Lisbon soon.

Nowt wrong with a Douro.

Even the vino verde is good (not Matteus)

if you are going to Lisbon, go to the Institute of Port wine. A huge catalogue of Ports you can try by the glass. It closes early so make it your first drink of the night.

Pains me to say….. Found an Aldi (possibly netto, can never remember,) over there. Wine cost pennies, absolutely crazy

Yeah, lived up to my Britishness and was hammered most of the time when I went out to visit my wife on her work trip.

Pastries and booze. You’ve gotta try the pastries as well. Are you flying into Lisbon or the Algarve? If Lisbon, spend one night getting slammed and eating tapas in Bairro Alto.

Pastel de nata!

Are you flying into Lisbon or the Algarve? If Lisbon, spend one night getting slammed and eating tapas in Bairro Alto.

+1

Also +1 to Douro. We bought a couple of random cheap-ish bottles at the airport on the way home and they were really lovely.

Brings back memories.

As above, find yourself a lidl and buy literally any wine and it we be of at least the standard of the mainstream usual suspects back in the UK. When we we’re there we went super cheap with the intention of using it to make sangria with back at the villa, but on tasting it it was perfectly serviceable red wine and had cost, with the exchnge rate, virtually nothing.

Every off licence in the whole of the Algarve has a life sized carboard cut out of Cliff Richard in it, smiling at you, presumably telling you in Portuguese to drink more wine. I later learned that he owns vineyards out there, but at the time that was a bit of a drunken mind blown moment.

Then there is Vinho Verde, super light and fresh, I think that is like the Portuguese equivalent to drinking Rose, it’s brilliant. Again cheap, and weaker, so at a meal you would always go for that dangerous second bottle.

+1 for Douro, also Dão. Costs buttons in the supermarkets.