To Market To Market, to Buy....

Lots of Wine and Cheese!

Dia del Mercado in Casa de Campo in Madrid is probably one of the Best events to occur in this wonderful city. Sadly, it only occurs the first saturday of every month. Bummer.

Its a little market with BIG attitude. It begins early in the morning, and finishes up around 3pm; however at around 1:30, free samples begin to become more scarce and people start cleaning up and buying their last minute products, so if you had your eye on a delectable cheese, its best to buy it before 1:30pm

The best thing about this mercado: upon entering, if you please, you pay 1 Euro. For your one euro you receive a wine glass. With this wine glass, you may go around to all of the vendors, and sample their wines... for free! Many vendors will have a handful of wines you can sample, and this way you can learn what you like and what you dont like, and what you want to take home with you and sample an entire bottle.  Then, you get to take home your wine glass! New vasos!

warning: this event will probably give you a buzz and leave you feeling  fantastic and full

some vendors smile for a phicture

There are also vendors who sell cheese, with free samples (some will even recommend a good wine to try with their cheeses), there are yogurts, frozen yogurts, honey, embutidos, smoked fish, breads, fruits and vegetables, liquors, potato chips, beans etc. There is also home brewed beer and even tacos! And whats so interesting about this market, is that all the products from from the Comunidad de Madrid! So you are always buying local, supporting your community. (I do question the origin of the smoked fish, I'm pretty sure theres no ocean or lake in Madrid to conseguir salmon, cod and anchovies... but Ill ignore that detail because it was yummy)

One stand with a large variety of wines from their bodega

cheese please!

Olive Oil that stole our heart for 6 euros a bottle

After sampling all of the wines and as the inventory started to diminish, we stocked up on lots of products! The wines and cheese were so good, and so much better quality than anything you can find in your local supermarket.

Cured cheese: 5 euro

Spreadable strong cheese with herbs: 3.50 euro

Bottle of knock-your-chanclas-off-Olive Oil: 6 euro

Wines: 3.50 euro, 4 euro, and 4 euro (some ranged up to 5 euros, but nothing higher)

Chuches (gummy candy): 1 euro

Potato chips with paprika: 1 euro.

Everything was so good, we just couldn't help ourselves! Our calendar is already marked for September!

For more information, check out the website here!