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Drink wine in Porto (PORTUGAL)
What better than drinking a Porto wine in its homeland Porto, Portugal……..
Although one of the first countries that come to mind is Portugal when we talk about wine let us tell you that history notes that wine production was started by the Romans over a thousand years ago when they inhabited the Iberian Penninsula. Since then on Portugal became one of the first in producing wine with an annual production of 10 million hectoliters of wine, ranking in the 6th position in the worlds production of wine. The vineyards in Portugal employs almost 25% of the agriculture force and wine export is one of the main incomes of this country,
When we first arrived at Porto northwest corner of Portugal, we encountered one of the most beautiful and spectacular landscapes in the world. Nature was at its peak, villages authentic, untouched inhabited by warm hospitable villagers. Porto smelt of history and Porto wine villages gave you an impression that time had stopped here without introducing any modern intervention to their lives.
Porto vineyards have not introduced modern ways to their wine production either. In our visit to a Porto vineyard we realized that the latest wine making techniques and detailed equipment were not to be found here. On the contrary, we encountered with a wine industry much the way it was several hundreds of years ago. Because some of the vineyards belong to the same family for generations, most of these properties are open to public visiting.
Impatient to try one of world’s best wine, first we got a brief account of the wine process. According to our wine-guide, villagers pick and carry the grapes in baskets from the steep terraces to the press houses below. In some wineries pressing procedure with pressing equipment ruuning all night long, however in many other places wine is still trodden barefoot as hunderd years ago. Following the pressing, the grapes are placed in closed tanks to ferment. After half of the grape sugar turns into alcoholm the juice is run off into barrels containig brady and the fermentation stops instantly.
While listening to all this in fascination, and walking through the barrels, the smell of grape and wine was so intense that we had to have our wine immediately…… and we did mmmmmmmm!