Port and the Douro (Infinite Ideas Classic Wine)
128 Port anD the Douro A single lagar will generally be filled over the course of a day’s picking. At the end of the day, as the ...
Port anD the Douro 129 vintage but a distinct handicap in a warm year, when twenty pairs of feet at the human body temperature o ...
130 Port anD the Douro and in contact with the fermenting must, planks are placed across the lagar and a couple of men with long ...
Port anD the Douro 131 in short supply in the 1960s. Most outlying quintas were without electricity altogether and the power sup ...
132 Port anD the Douro is such that each cycle takes just ten or fifteen minutes to complete. By the time that the fermenting mu ...
Port anD the Douro 133 produced deep-coloured aromatic Port, it was concluded that as a result of the lack of aeration during fe ...
134 Port anD the Douro as close as possible to that of a traditional lagar. All the tanks are conical for ease of emptying (as i ...
Port anD the Douro 135 subsequently dispensed with fourteen large pump-over vats at their Nogueira winery and installed thirty p ...
136 Port anD the Douro (thereby allowing more skin contact) without having to allow for the difference in Baumé between the pres ...
Port anD the Douro 137 quantity to begin a fermentation. Where white grapes are batch planted they are the first to be harvested ...
138 Port anD the Douro dry white wine. Lighter wines, however, are inoculated with selected yeast cultures and fermented at 18 t ...
Port anD the Douro 139 Basket press legislation of 1907 (see page 35), shippers were forced to purchase aguardente from outside ...
140 Port anD the Douro it was. A tasting of different spirits set up for me in 2010 showed just how oily in character the standa ...
4. Port types over-wintering in the Douro The onset of winter transforms the Douro into a cold, soulless place. A thick blanket ...
142 Port anD the Douro A month or two after the vintage, the lota takes place. The young wines are racked or drawn off the sedim ...
Port anD the Douro 143 An air of dampness pervades the city, penetrating buildings so that patches of mould grow on the walls if ...
144 Port anD the Douro to speak of, the latter is now almost non-existent. When new casks are required today, the oak is bought ...
Port anD the Douro 145 becoming ever more congested and tourist-orientated a number of other shippers have followed, constructin ...
146 Port anD the Douro are used to stabilise and remove oxidative browning from white Ports. Unless there is a particular proble ...
Port anD the Douro 147 Fonseca’s room with a view I can think of a number of smaller shippers without their own laboratories who ...
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