In a port wine, we will take the same grapes, start fermenting, and when half of the sugar has been converted to alcohol, we will run off the juice. And we will add a neutral grape spirit, which ...

Grapes For Port Are Often Picked By Hand Around the world, roughly 10,000 varieties of grape are grown for the wine industry ...

Port Grape Shortage Leads to Illegal Trafficking. Posted: Wednesday, November 8, 2000. By Michèle Shah and James Suckling. This fall, while Port producers celebrated one of their highest-quality ...

When you talk about the great Port producers in Portugal one name stands out in the crowd. Graham's was established in 1820 and has made some of the finest vintage Ports of the 20th century.

Both are made from the traditional Port grapes, primarily Touriga Nacional, Tinta Barroca, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Cao, in a melange determined more by what vines happen to be in ...

Port is a naturally sweet, fortified red wine which achieves its sweetness by adding brandy to the fermenting grape juice, thus stopping fermentation before all of the grape sugar has been converte… ...

The expansion gives the Port giant another 500 acres of vineyards and multiple wineries outside of the Douro Valley. With this purchase, they can continue to use their Douro Valley grapes for Port ...

This fall, while Port producers celebrated one of their highest-quality harvests in years, they were also lamenting a grape shortage that led to illegal trafficking in non-Port grapes and high costs ...

Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve is the non-vintage port for vintage port lovers. Published on August 23, 2017. By Richard Carleton Hacker. Richard Carleton Hacker ...