Here's our guide to one of the world’s oldest wines.
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Port – the real stuff, from grapes grown in the terraced vineyards of the Douro and made into wine in and around Porto in Portugal – is one of the wine world’s oldest and most interesting pleasures.
Port vineyards are one of the oldest demarcated and regulated farming areas in the world, and with over 250 years of history, you’d expect the wines to be beguiling, and you’d be right. With over two and a half centuries of European lawmaking behind them, you might also expect port wines to be totally confusing, and you’d be right about that, too. Port vineyards undergo a multipoint quality classification and rating for each plot, and that’s not even considering the final style and quality of the producers who turn the stuff into wine. Don’t start sweating, though, because we’re about to make your next foray into the tasty realm of this dessert wine a whole lot easier.
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