Lisbon was our intro to Portugal, and effectively confirmed that we were in for a week of amazing food in a beautiful new country. But a stint of wine tasting in the Alentejo cemented something much, much more important. We had a new-found love for Portuguese wine! We woke up early on our third morning–earlier than is probably acceptable by any true Portuguese person. However, we had heard very different estimates on how much time it would take us to get to Évora, and then onto our home for the night: Herdade do Vau in Beja. With a potentially long…