Iberian Table | Portugal: Wine Discovery!

​Portugal makes some of Europe's most interesting wine. Most Americans have barely scratched the surface — and that's exactly why we find it so exciting.

​This month we're cooking from the Alentejo, Portugal's vast, sun-baked interior, where the food is ancient and the hospitality is the kind that starts with bread. We'll make açorda alentejana — a rustic, silky soup built from day-old bread, garlic, olive oil, eggs, and fresh herbs — and roast porco preto, the extraordinary Iberian black pig, the same breed behind jamón ibérico, with its remarkable marbling and depth of flavor.

​The wines will take you across the country: a coastal white to open with, a progression through Portugal's underrated reds from regions like Dão and the Douro, and — to finish — a pour of Madeira, the fortified wine of a tiny Atlantic island that outlasted empires and is still one of the most singular things you can put in a glass.

​Tickets: $50 | First Sunday of the month | 5–7pm