Port takes its name from the city of Oporto from where the wine is shipped to so many export markets
Port takes its name from the city of Oporto from where the wine is shipped to so many export markets, but he is actually produced at the Douro Valley, probably the world's first officially demarcated wine region. It is no doubt the world's most difficult wine growing region. Located in Northeast Portugal, within the Douro River basin, surrounded by rugged mountains that gives it very particular soil and climacteric characteristics.
Although most of the Port wines are aged in wood, a small proportion of the crop, about 2%, is kept aside to be aged in bottles. This special style of Port is called Vintage Port and is responsible for a reputation of the very finest and rarest fortified wines. Its opulent organoleptic characteristics correspond to unique wines, of a kind that are probably achieved in only three years in every decade.