Farm to Table (4 nights)

Arrival at our country house. Welcome drink.

The Monte do Serrado de Baixo is a typical Alentejo house.

It has four rooms, with toilet and central heating, decorated to a theme: the cereal, the cork tree, the olive tree and the wine.

Our dining room, where we serve delicious breakfasts and other meals, open to a perfumed orange orchard. In the living room, you find small library, some games and music. Although there is AC all over the house, nothing replaces the freshness of this room during the summer and the ambience of the fireplace which, in the long winter nights, invites for a glass of a good wine and chatting.

The garden, with grass and the swimmingpool, is a leafy and sunny, but with good areas of holm oaks and big olive trees shades.

In the farm lives freely our dogs, a donkey who loves people and a small sheep herd grazing in the meadow with the small lambs, chickens, geese and turkeys. We always have fresh eggs and tasteful products from our organic green garden.

We start the day with a small walk through our farm, with a mandatory stop at our green garden and orchard to pick the seasonal products that we will cook tonight. Then we will visit a color and perfumed aromatic herbs farm, tasting its infusions among other products. After a stop for lunch, we will visit a prickly pear cactus plantation and taste some of their different products. Some more kilometers of landscape after we arrive to a cork transformation center, where we learn the process from taking the cork to the production of the handmade pretty and useful items.

Before arriving home, we still have some time to watch the miracle of old olive trees and taste their organic olive oil, an excellent appetizer for our dinner.

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Spring – from the fava garden… and where are the eggs for the asparagus?

Summer – night picking prickly pear and taking the cork

Autumn – picking and preparing the olives: do you want to learn and take home a small jar?

Winter – the art of pruning the centennial olive trees

In the morning, we visit Arraiolos, stopping in the castle and at the Carpets Museum. Altought our delicious breakfast, it tastes good a good cup of coffee and a local cake. After, we continue our trip to Montemor-o-Novo to, in a honey storage, peek the honey combs, learn with the experts about the organized and productive bees’ life and taste the honey. After lunch, we taste crafted chocolates and, to burn some calories, we walk through the historical centre of Montemor. To end the day, we visit an estate where a delicious tasting of its cheeses, smocked sausages, jams and liquors is waiting for us.

This morning is dedicated to the seasonal activities related to wine. According to the season, we can include a walk through the vineyards, a pruning lesson, joining the harvest and the trodding, tasting the new wine or more complexed tastings, always guided by an expert in wine.

The lunch in Évora will have a tasting menu, than with the help of our Flavors Guide, you can digest it on a walk along the historical centre of the city, classified as a World Site Heritage. 20 centuries of history will wait for us, but also small traditional shops, the groceries with organic products, pastries and the conventual sweets, the stores with the regional flavors with their collections of wine, olive oil, jam, honey, chocolats… What a temptation.

Walk through the market with our shopping list before come home.

To end the day, we will cook our dinner and experience a homemade meal made with seasonal products and all the seasons of Alentejo’s gastronomy.

SEASON’S HIGHLIGHTS

Spring – winemaker for a day

Summer – do you want to harvest or treading the grapes?

Autumn – Taste the young wine

Winter – The art of pruning the vine

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