White Port Wine - Lágrima

When most people think of Port wine they have a romantic vision of sweet wines with deep red or golden tawny colours. The reality is Port wine is quite complex and comes in a variety colours and types - ruby, tawny, white, Lágrima, vintage, LBV, and the list goes on. Port is a fascinating subject with a deep history that not only involves wonderful food, but politics as well. I’ll save that for a later post. White Ports however is an interesting option that doesn’t always get a lot of attention but is quite divers in itself and comes in a number of options from dry to very sweet, and a great accompaniment for all sorts of dried fruits, nuts and desserts.

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Portugal Masters Swings into the Algarve

What do you get when you have a world class golf course designed by Arnold Palmer, a purse of over 3 million Euros, great weather and some of the best names in Golf? Portugal Masters of course!

Portugal Masters Golf Tournament

Today – October 18th - is the kick off to the PGA Portugal Masters being held at Victoria Clube de Golf in Vilamoura and will run until October 21st. If you missed this years Masters, plan to be here for the next, Portugal Masters has an initial 3 straight year run … so start working on that golf swing if you want to play with the best of them.

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Chocolate Salami - Salame de Chocolate

Say, “Salami” here in Portugal and the first thing that comes to mind is chocolate - “Chocolate Salami”. In most cultures, salami is something salty and smoked, but here we love our sweets so much we’ve even made one out of chocolate, what else?! If you’ve visited Portugal before, you may have seen these delicious treats in bakeries.

Chocolate Salami Portuguese Style

Commercial versions, are usually wrapped in foil, quite thick and large, more like a slice of cake than anything resembling an actual salami. And in some places you’ll find them coated with sugar — what can we say, other than, Portuguese like their sweets, really sweet.

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Happy Birthday!

It’s not Algarve Buzz’s birthday, but rather Eddie, who is celebrating a birthday today – so she’s taking the day off from blogging … by force of course.

Happy Birthday Eddie.

Happy Birthday Eddie

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Blog Action Day – Algarve’s Water

Today (October 15th) is the first annual “Blog Action Day”- where 15,000 bloggers from around the world will post on an important topic - “The Environment”.

For my part, I’m going to focus on a key issue of “water” here in Algarve.

Blog Action Day - 15,000 Bloggers. One Topic: the Environment

How many times have we prepared to travel by going to the doctor for shots, and the pharmacy for pills to ward off all sorts of traveling ills - lots of precautions just in case. Even seasoned travelers sometimes worry about that one thing they can’t control, Water. It’s in ice cubes, on lettuce, in our cooking – it’s everywhere and impossible to control every point.

Well now there’s one less thing to worry about when traveling or living in the Algarve. The water across the region was recently ISO certified for quality, making the Algarve one of the first regions across the globe to certify its tap water.

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Portimão Hosts Opera Nights

Portimao Opera Nights The city of Portimão is hosting a fantastic event for Opera fans from October 16th to October 27th. This will be the first Opera Festival to be held outside Teatro Nacional e Carlos in Lisbon, which is Portugal’s top opera house.