Calda de Aregos to Entre os Rios

Saturday April 13 Calda de Aregos to Entre os Rios. 

This is our day of leisure which starts with a walk around what seems like the deserted town of Calda de Aregos. Since it’s a summer seasonal place the hotels are mostly closed. We do find the hospital where our guide told us the patients went hysterical and the doctor committed suicide causing the hospital to close. We didn’t see his ghost.

Passing through the lock

Later we pass through the highest of the lock on the Douro 115 ft. We have a demonstration of opening vintage port by scoring the bottleneck and then with cold water crack it off leaving the cork off the bottle. We are treated to a 2008 vintage port while cruising to Entre os Rios.

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In the evening we go to the for a Portuguese country dinner. There are records of this estate back to the 16th century. The first records of the sale of bottled wine date back to 1870. Since then, generations of the family have been devoted to the production of high quality wines, preserving this family legacy. Aside from its important architectural heritage, the Quinta da Aveleda estate is also appreciated for its parks and gardens, where rare species of trees flourish, some of which have been around for over two hundred years. Currently the it is the largest Vinho Verde exporting company, and remains a family-owned business in every way.

Garden at Quinta de Aveleda