Left and right are the tiered vineyards of the region, providing The raw materials for the fortified wine we know as Port.
We stopped in to look around the gardens of the famous Mateus winery.
From here we drove on some of the most elegant engineering we have ever experienced.
From many of Portugal’s tallest viaducts to its longest tunnel, we drove with ease through the mountainous north of the country on the new A4 motorway. Also called the Transmontana Highway. Clearly nothing to do with the state in Amrika.
Before these modern marvels of civil engineering, grapes would travel from these vineyards to Porto primarily by river. Road travel would have been steep, winding and slow. Motion sickness would definitely have been a thing not many years ago. I’m just glad I’m doing it now.
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