What is Port?Port is the word which defines the wine made from the grapes grown exclusively in the Wine District of the Douro Valley, in northern Portugal.
When it was first shipped from Oporto over 200 years ago, it was known as “Oporto Wine”.
The Douro Region is a wild mountainous district.
The cultivation is difficult, as the composition of the rocky soil, together with the steepness of the hills, requires the building up of innumerable terraces.
You can transplant the vines, the methods of cultivation and manufacture can be imitated, but the soil cannot, neither the innumerable peculiarities of the climate.
In short, Porto owes its inimitable qualities to a combination of circumstances which cannot be duplicated in any other part of the world.
written by: Rita Sádio
posted by: Isabel Brito da Luz
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