Port Bottle Opening Demonstration

Port Bottle Opening Demonstration. Applying hot tongs to a chilled bottle of Port. IMG_8444p1

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October 19th 2022
I would be remiss if I did not include a blog entry about Peso da Régua. Régua, with a population of some 17,100 is the largest of the riverside towns and the gateway to the Douro wine region. Cruise vessels always make a port call here. It was our jumping off place for tours to Villa Real and Lamego. The community took form as a village in Medieval times with wine production always its principa ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Peso da Régua

Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more

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