Vinho do Douro - and the Portugal / England relationship
Douro wnes from Real Companhia Velha. Their range includes Quinta dos Aciprestes,
Quinta de Cidrô, Porca de Murça, Evel, Grandjó, Grantom.
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Douro wine (Vinho do Douro), from the same region of port wines, originally were bitter wines, but the relation between Portugal and England led the English to enhance this wine with a kind of Portuguese brandy known as aguardente for it to support a voyage from Portugal to England. And since then, the wine only got better, and it appears by the first time in the registries of exports in 1679. Today's Douro wines are favourite table wines with some traits that are reminiscent of a port wine.
The "Barca Velha" is a widely notable wine, which is not only seen as, perhaps, the best Portuguese wine, but also as one of the best wines of the world.