A Port wine can't be from anywhere else but Douro.
It exist only one place in the world were one can produce the Port wine : the Douro valley, in the north of Portugal.
This vineyard, which spreads along the Douro river is also affected by it. From the border of Spain it stretches 150 km of Port vinyards, covering 250.000 hectares, of which 10% in planted.
It was the Romans, and later Henri de Bourgogne in the 11th century, who discovered the value of the territory and the wine that came from it. The Port then didn't became famous until 1756, when the authorities demarcated the production of the region, thus being the first appellation controlée (control of origin) in the world.
In the Douro valley, man has
always cultivated the vines in terraces.

Furthermore, no were else is the vine cultivation so difficult.
One must crush the soil in order to plant the vine stocks, and build terraces on the sides of the mountains so narrow that no machines can access. On these sides, burnt by the sun, the vines roots must search water and nutrition from 12 meters depth.

But it is at this price, on this harsh land - a vine gives no more than one bottle per year - that the « Vinho generoso » is born. This magnificent, rich wine is the Port wine (Le Vin de Porto).

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