Bridge to the Same Place

Brian's Guide to Being A Wine-O

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November 29th 2008
All Aboard the Pimp Train to Porto After the hell train that was Madrid to Lisbon, we got ourselves a pimp train to Porto, home of the Port wine. Port wine means dessert wine to you beginner wine drinkers. I am now officially considered an intermediate Port wine taster. If you’re now attempting to decifer what an intermediate wine taster would be, I would use this guide: Drinks Vinegar (W ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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