Port Wine
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Discover what Port wine is and what makes its flavor distinct.
Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Oporto, Porto, or simply Port) is a sweet, fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is often served as a dessert wine.
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colheitaTerm used in Port winemaking referring to vintage. Usually an aged tawny Port from a single vintage which will be declared on the label. communeTypically refers to a wine-growing village in the Burgundy region of France.
Roy's Port Wine Cellar Reduction Party: Six Decades of Vintage Port (April 18, 2004), by Roy Hersh.
The Fladgate Partnership Port Tasting, by Roy Hersh.
Quintessential Quinta do Noval Nacional: A Retrospective Tasting of 22 Vintages, by Roy Hersh.
The Douro certainly is the most famous region of Portugal, in particular for the production of the renowned Port wine.
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I'm throwing a curveball here. Port is a dessert wine from Portugal, so it's to be drunken AFTER dinner. There are different styles of Port, and I've suggested here a Ruby style.
TOURIGA NACIONAL: Classic red wine grape used for still and Port wine production. Extensively grown in the Douro and Dão regions of Portugal, and other hot climate regions of the world.
Ruby
A general style of red port wines that encompasses character ports, vintage port, young ruby ports, and others. All are rather sweet.
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[edit] Porto The legal name for a true Port wines sold in the United States since imitation ports may be labeled as a "port" there .
[edit] Potassium sorbate A wine stabilizer and preservative.
Ruby - A style of Port wine that is generally sweet.
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Sack - An early English term for what is now called Sherry.
2000 a Vintage Year for Port: Most port wine houses declared a vintage in 2000. This is the first generally declared vintage since 1977.
A demijohn is large (5 gallon/20 liter) glass container used to store or transport wine.
Diurnal difference
The diurnal difference is the arithmetic difference between the maximum daytime temperature and the minimum nighttime temperature.
Despite what people have you believe--e.g., that a port wine or coffee is require--chocolate may pair wonderfully with dry Cabernets.
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Douro: A river in Portugal as well as the wine region famous for producing Port wines.
Dry: A wine containing no more than 0.2 percent unfermented sugar.
There are 2 main types of port wines: o tawny ports are blended wines that have usually been kept by the maker in wood barrels for some years in order to mature them for drinking when sold; ...
Foot treading of grapes is still used in producing a small quantity of the best port wines.
DOURO VALLEY
Area of Portugal known for producing the worlds greatest port wines.
Oporto: Largest seaport city in northern Portugal. This is the gateway to the port wine region.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Lambrusco was the biggest selling import wine in the United States.[3] During that time the wine was also produced in a white and rosé style made by limiting the skin contact with the must.
Vintage Ports, considered the king of Ports, are only made in exceptionally good years when a vintage is declared by the Port wine council (often only three to four years per decade) and account for just 5% of production.
By 1756 Port wine was so famous that the Alto Douro region became the world's first officially delimited wine region. In the 19th century, phylloxera devastated large areas of Portuguese vineyards.
TCA can be detected in dry white wine and sparkling wines at levels around two parts per trillion (0.000000000002 grams in a litre of wine), and in red and port wines at around five parts per trillion.
 See also: Wine, Region, Port, Grape, Bottle
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