Enjoying Port 

Highly illuminating pages from Into Wine. Did you know that the Douro Valley, from where port wine comes, was probably the first wine region to be demarcated in the world (1756)? Or that the French drink more port than anyone else, but that the British drink the most vintage port?
Added on: 02-Mar-2005 | hits: 171
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Great Wine Capitals 

The Global Network of Great Wine Capitals really has more to do with tourism than wine, its stated objective being to "encourage international winery tourism, as well as economic, academic and cultural exchanges between these famous capitals of wine." Which is fine by us, of course. The places in question are Melbourne, Bordeaux, San Francisco - Napa Valley, Porto, Cape Town, Bilbao-Rioja, Florence and Mendoza, Argentina.
Added on: 04-Jun-2008 | hits: 41
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Info Port Wine 

Enthusiast's or enthusiasts' site, with tons of information and a host of links I really must pillage one of these days.
Added on: 02-Mar-2005 | hits: 152
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Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e do Porto 

The Duero and Port Wine Institute's website has 'most everything you might want to know about port wine, particularly, from the wines themselves to tourism and gastronomy.
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Port Wine Route 

Spain's great wine river, the Duero, becomes the Douro when it enters Portugal and becomes even more closely related with wine. Its banks are lined with vineyards and the river has traditionally also enabled transport of the product to Porto, for storage, aging or export. The picturesque scenery, historic towns and villages and, of course, food and drink of the region make it a draw for visitors, one of the best in Portugal, whether you follow the route and its associated "touristic circuits," or take one of the Douro cruises of varying lengths. The link goes to the website of what seems to be an association of country lodgings in the area.
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Portwine.com 

In utter contrast to the Symington Family's wonderfully non-commercial, gentlemanly Vintage Port website comes this Canadian site which, not content with flogging port wine over the Internet, would have you purchase glasses, bottle openers, books, posters, and DVDs from them as well. Not that there is anything wrong with that - I was, in fact, quite tickled to discover a series of wine-centred crime novels by one Tony Aspler, with titles like Death on the Douro and Blood is Thicker than Beaujolais.
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Vintage Port Site 

Lovely site from a major vintner which nevertheless does not try to sell you anything, and addresses the reader as though buying a few cases of port to be laid down for when your godson comes of age were something everyone still has to do from time to time.
Added on: 02-Mar-2005 | hits: 146
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