Cork, Wine and Olive Oil
Inside a Cork Oak Forest
Évora countryside
Walk through the montado, the cork oak landscape that defines the Alentejo.
Half day
Cork, Wine and Olive Oil
A Vineyard Picnic at Golden Hour
A farm-to-table picnic laid out between the vines, with everything on the table grown, raised or made on the estate.
- Location
- Wine estates of the Alentejo
- Duration
- Two to three hours
- Best seasons
- Spring, summer and autumn
- Pace
- Gentle
- Region
- Alentejo Central
The story
A low wooden table waits in the shade of a cork oak at the head of the vine rows. The kitchen of the estate has spent the morning with it: bread from their oven, cheese from neighbours, ham from pigs fed on the acorns of the montado, olive oil pressed down the road, and wine from the rows in front of you. Nothing has travelled far, and everything carries the taste of the same soil. Guests eat slowly as the light turns gold over the vines, with the white farmhouses of the estate in the distance.
The day
What you do
- 1Follow a path through the vines to a private table under a cork oak
- 2Taste the estate's own wine, oil, bread and preserves, with cheese and ham from nearby farms
- 3Stay for the golden hour, when the plains glow and the swallows come low over the rows
Gentle on the land
Picnics are built entirely from the estate and its closest neighbours, so the food travels metres, not miles.
Where this is
Wine estates of the Alentejo
Approximately 38.50° N, 7.95° W
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