Port and the Douro (Infinite Ideas Classic Wine)

Port and the Douro Port and the (^) Douro RichaRd Mayson Mayson Written in an authoritative but entertaining manner by Port expe ...

Port and the Douro ...

Richard Mayson entered the wine trade as a result of living and working in Portugal, which he first visited as a child in 1970. ...

Port and the Douro RichaRd Mayson with illustrations by Leo duff ...

Copyright © Richard Mayson, 2013 The right of Richard Mayson to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted in ac ...

To the late Jorge Maria Cabral Ferreira, who first inspired my interest in Port and the Douro ...

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Contents Acknowledgements ix ...

viii Contents illustrations Port and the Douro up to date Preface to the third edition xi Vineyards, vines and quintas ...

aCknowleDgeMents I am indebted to a huge number of people who have helped me since I first arrived in Oporto over thirty years a ...

x aCknowleDgeMents My thanks are due to David Baverstock and Dominic Morris, particularly for their help with the chapter on Dou ...

PreFaCe to the thirD eDition All books start somewhere. This one began on 24 March 1980, the day that I was invited to lunch in ...

xii PreFaCe to the thirD eDition Vila Nova de Gaia and the rather clubbable lifestyle of the Port shippers, this book seeks to p ...

1 Port anD the Douro, uP to Date early history: Portus anD Cale There is no Taylor’s Quinta de Terra Feita 1998. The harvest was ...

2 Port anD the Douro from this period which are known as either pias or laragetas. It is likely they were used for making both o ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 3 went on to ransack Lisbon, capturing the city for Afonso Henriques in 1147. The new kingdom of P ...

4 Port anD the Douro French taking the Castilian side, first Edward III then Richard II of England plunged into battle alongside ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 5 and white Portuguese flag planted on four continents. The Cantino map of 1502 shows that Portuga ...

6 Port anD the Douro Douro e Minho, on the islands of Madeira and the Azores and with the Portuguese military. By the end of the ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 7 the english ‘FaCtory’ By the late sixteenth century, Portugal’s second city was already home to ...