Port Wine - Vinho do Porto (Portugal) (why Porto wine is best)
By pol1ce
Porto city and Douro's River
Some Port wines are classified as the best wines in the world
Why experts think like this about Port's wine?
- They know that it is made of great grapes
- The soil is also unique in world
- The way and attempting that it requires making it
- The age of the vines
Why regularly people like it?
- It's very tasty
- Easy to drink
- +-20% alcohol
What is the secret?
- The Douro's Region Soil
- The Age of Vines
- The manual harvest of the grapes
What is Porto?
- Is one of the oldest Cities in Europeand UNESCO Worlds Heritage with 41.66 km² and about 300.000 inhabitants
- Is also a District with same name, 2.395 km² with about 2.800.000 inhabitants
- Is also a Metropolitan area with 1.883,61 km² and about 2.700.000 inhabitants
Douro's Valley
Douro
What is Douro?
- Is the name of a huge River with 897 km that cuts almost all Spain and all Portugal East North to West and finish in the Atlantic ocean
- Is a Portuguese Region and UNESCO Worlds Heritage
- Is where Douro's Vines give as the Grapes for the excellent Douro's Table Wines and the Port Wines the soil here is rich in shale.
- Douro (de Ouro) means (Of Gold)
This is a very popular touristic region with some Savage places where there are only vines and mountains
Quinta do Seixo - Sandeman's Porto Wine Company
Video from Douro's Valley
A small video showing us the vines in a famous Porto's Wine company (Sandeman) with some tourists speaking English
Learn how to decant a Vintage Porto
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Comments
Thz billyaustindilon for the comment.
Maybe you wanted to say Tawny or Ruby.
Because a Vintage is a bit high price, but if you can buy it, sorry for asking, im glad you can drink it.
I do prefere to drink Vintage Port ruby, are the best, but only when i have the money to buy it.
There are 3 kinds of color (Ruby, Tawny and White)
There are 3 types of Port (New, Reserve, and Vintage)
Thz again. i will check ur hubs again.
billyaustindillon 15 months ago
I do enjoy a good port - a tawny or vintage - great after dinner aperitif - I need to go to Portugal one day and do a proper port tasting :)