Port and the Douro (Infinite Ideas Classic Wine)

8 Port anD the Douro PoetiC tasting notes Winemaking conditions in the seventeenth century must have been unhygienic in the extr ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 9 the First Port shiPPers In the latter part of the seventeenth century the foundations were laid ...

10 Port anD the Douro is much larger than Viana and here are more English and Scotch families. The wine of the Duro [sic] is muc ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 11 who inventeD Port? in 1678 two wine merchants apparently found the abbot of Lamego monastery ad ...

12 Port anD the Douro PoMBal anD the early regulations Pombal acted to quell the problems in the Douro with characteristic decis ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 13 Men who shaPeD the Douro sebastião José de carvalho e Melo, Marquês de Pombal (1699–1782) son o ...

14 Port anD the Douro Revolt’, it ended with the arrest of 407 men and women, around twenty of whom were hanged and over a hundr ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 15 production of cereals and rice. Any contravention of the rules would be met by stiff penalties ...

16 Port anD the Douro was exiled and, in a royal decree of 9 August 1777, the Real Companhia das Vinhas do Alto Douro lost the m ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 17 work progressed, more vineyards were planted in the Cima Corgo upstream from Régua. The English ...

18 Port anD the Douro wine from 1765 was sold. Both these years were certainly well regarded, for Vila Real magistrate, Bernardo ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 19 community in almost every major city in England. Some were political refugees from the Pombalin ...

20 Port anD the Douro war anD unrest For the first half of the nineteenth century, Oporto was shaken by invasion and rebellion. ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 21 constitution, which was reluctantly acceded to by the regents in Lisbon. João eventually return ...

22 Port anD the Douro wine flowing into the Douro which turned a rather murky shade of purple. Pedro duly entered Lisbon in July ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 23 Forrester anD the Douro Joseph Forrester’s arrival in Portugal coincided with the height of the ...

24 Port anD the Douro On his 1848 map he comments on the excellent roads around Zamora, Salamanca and Valladolid, but in compari ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 25 Forrester dates this fashion for full, sweet Port wines as coming from the extraordinarily fine ...

26 Port anD the Douro Death on the Douro Although Joseph Forrester married in 1836, his English-born wife died of typhus in 1847 ...

Port anD the Douro uP to Date 27 woMen who shaPeD the Douro dona antónia Ferreira (1811–96) Port is often viewed as a male fiefd ...