9:30 AM — Meet at Bolhão Farm Market
Main entrance, Rua Formosa 322. Your guide gives you the layout of the market — useful if you want to come back later on your own.
Stop 1 — National olive oil stall (inside Bolhão)
Taste two Portuguese olive oils side by side: Douro and Alentejo. Alongside them, native Portuguese olives — Cobrançosa, Verdeal, and Madural.
Stop 2 — Piri-piri olive oil (inside Bolhão)
A second stall, this one built around piri-piri oil, a staple in traditional Portuguese cooking.
Stop 3 — Olive pâté shop (just outside Bolhão)
Leave the market for a shop specializing in olive pâté.
Stop 4 — Monovarietal tasting
The final stop, and the one that ties it together: the same three native varieties — Cobrançosa, Verdeal, Madural — this time as single-variety oils. You'll taste them in the blue glasses professional tasters use, where color is deliberately hidden so smell and flavor do the work.
Closing spread
Presunto, bread, cheese, jam, and honey, paired with Portuguese wine.
Ends by 2:30 PM — roughly 5 hours from meeting point to close.
Main entrance, Rua Formosa 322. Your guide gives you the layout of the market — useful if you want to come back later on your own.
Main entrance, Rua Formosa 322. Your guide gives you the layout of the market — useful if you want to come back later on your own.
