Port and the Douro (Infinite Ideas Classic Wine)
28 Port anD the Douro the golDen DeCaDes The mid-nineteenth century proved to be something of a golden age for Port. Production ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 29 greenhouse in 1863. In his book, The Great Wine Blight, George Ordish records that an academic ...
30 Port anD the Douro Spanish border in 1887, it had become a lifeline for the remote communities of the Alto Douro, cutting the ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 31 ‘The village of Pinhão comprises a cluster of small houses, and some half-a-dozen wine stores, ...
32 Port anD the Douro American rootstock undoubtedly took place at Quinta de Val de Figueira near Covas in 1876 and four years l ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 33 Men who shaPeD the Douro the Galegos in the nineteenth century, Galicia in north west spain was ...
34 Port anD the Douro oPorto at the enD oF the nineteenth Century The new wealth in Oporto was much more conspicuous. The same B ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 35 house increasing volumes of wine, equipping them with new labour-saving devices like steam pump ...
36 Port anD the Douro Plague anD PolitiCs The turn of the century was a particularly turbulent time for Portugal. An outstanding ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 37 Cinta, Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Meda, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, São João de Pesqueira, Tabuaço, ...
38 Port anD the Douro The First World War provided the British community with an unwelcome diversion from their problems in Port ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 39 out against the military government of General Oscar Carmona. Fierce fighting took place in Opo ...
40 Port anD the Douro became his epitaph: ‘I know quite well what I want and where I am going.’ Salazar was given complete contr ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 41 the end of May 1938, the Port lodges closed ‘to enable their staff to participate in the great ...
42 Port anD the Douro which was still trading at pre-war prices, had a dampening effect on their pricing. Most British wine merc ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 43 Unlike much of Europe, which underwent a social revolution in the wake of the Second World War, ...
44 Port anD the Douro fell over each other trying to acquire stocks before the law came into force just a year later, stretching ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 45 Symington, ‘we began to realise that things were picking up when we sold more 1963 vintage Port ...
46 Port anD the Douro do Bomfim records that the flood ‘carried away lodges, olive trees and vineyards ... the river rose with e ...
Port anD the Douro uP to Date 47 coming to believe in a political rather than military solution to the long-running colonial war ...
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