A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
A dark dessert winde from Portugal.
A fortified wine in which grape alcohol is added part way through fermentation. Roughly speaking, ports are either "tawny" or "ruby," and both types are ready to drink when bottled.
A sweet, fortified wine (originally from a particular region of Portugal), produce by the addition of brandy during active fermentation. The high alcohol content of the added brandy is enough to stifle the yeast's fermentation of sugar, leaving the wine strong and sweet.
A sweet, fortified wine made in the Douro Valley of Portugal and aged in the coastal town of Vila Nova de Gaia; variations include Vintage, Tawny, Late Bottled Vintage, Ruby, White and others.
Sweet fortified wine from the district of Oporto in Portugal; also identifies any sweet fortified wine of this type, produced by adding brandy to partially fermented grape juice.
short for Portugal, this country's wine is dark red and strong.
A sweet, heavily fortified dessert wine, originating in the region of Oporto, in Portugal. It is usually made from non-muscat type red grapes. It is fortified at an early stage in order to retain the residual sugar, and then it is aged in wood. The period of maturation depends on the Port being produced.
A fortified dessert wine made in several styles.
is a fortified dessert wine from Oporto, Portugal.
A fortified wine with high alcohol content often served after expensive meals (and all MCR Friday formals).
Port is a superb, sweetish dessert wine, a fortified red wine, the name coming from Oporto on the Douro River in Portugal. Port is an after-dinner drink of quite high alcohol content (17 to 20 per cent). They have great keeping qualities thanks to added brandy and high natural sugar content. There are 2 main types of port wines: tawny ports are blended wines that have usually been kept by the maker in wood barrels for some years in order to mature them for drinking when sold; vintage ports (which bear a year of origin on the label) are usually sold early by the maker and the consumer does the cellaring until the wine is ready for drinking
A fortified wine. Tawny ports are ready to drink when sold, they don't mature in the bottle. Vintage ports will mature in the bottle, and are made to be kept by the buyer, who then must decide when it's ready to drink. Very tricky stuff.
A sweet red wine fortified with distilled spirits.
A fortified sweet wine from the Duoro Valley of Portugal. It is a blended wine made up of five grapes: Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cao, Touriga Francesa, Touriga Nacional. Ports are divided into two categories: wood-aged ports and bottle-aged ports. The best known style of wood-aged port is Tawny Port which is ready to drink immediately after bottling. The best known style of bottle-aged port is Vintage Port which should be decanted.
A Portuguese fortified wine.
A sweet, fortified wine made in Portugal, usually enjoyed as an after-dinner drink.
A rich, sweet, fortified Portuguese wine.
sweet heavy red wine fortified with brandy, most frequently imbibed by Regency gentlemen at dinner parties after the ladies had withdrawn to the drawing room for tea. Port gets its name from the country of Portugal. England had sworn off French wine during the war years, and instead began importing wine from this allied country instead.
a dark dessert wine from Portugal.
A sweet, heavily-fortified dessert wine that originated in the region of Oporto, Portugal.
A fortified wine of Portugal, also known as Oporto. Very richly flavoured and sweet. There are a number of different styles: tawny - aged in wooden barrels, rather than the bottle, the age (10 years etc.) refers to the average age of the wine in the barrel: colheita - refers to a port of a single vintage that has been aged in wooden barrels: vintage- port of a specific year that is aged in the bottle; late bottled - aged in the barrel but not for as long as a tawny port; ruby - about three years old, sweet and ruby red coloured, usually fruity and ready to drink.
Dark, rich, fortified red wine used for dessert, made in Oporto, in the Douro or Portugal.
Port is a sweet full-bodied wine that comes from the Oporto region of Portugal.
Any of the rich, sweet, alcoholic and full bodied wines from the Oporto region of Portugal. Those made in South Africa are preceded by the word ‘Cape'.
A fortified Portuguese wine with an alcoholic strength of more than 16.5%. Brandy is added to the wine part way through the fermentation process. Port is most often served as an after-meal drink.
A general term used to describe any Port-styled or fortified wine. May be made from any variety of grape(s).
1. n. a wine fortified with brandy, traditionally from Portugal; 2. n. a harbor where people dock their boats and drink port; 3. v. to trans port, or otherwise translate and/or modify a computer program or Director Projector from one platform to another, as in, "Who is going to port this mess to Windows?"; 4. n. a program which has been translated to operate on another platform, as in "Who messed up the Windows port? I need a glass of port".
A fortified wine, mostly red, of which there are many styles and ages. more information - recipes
A vin doux naturel, or a wine that is fortified during fermentation. Some residual sweetness remains because the yeast has not yet depleted all of the natural sugars in the must. Six major grape varieties are grown throughout Portugal's Douro valley in steep, rocky hillside vineyards. After fortification, wines are classified either into bottle or wood-aged ports. Bottle aged ports include ruby and vintage, the most expensive. Wood aged ports are further aged before release in barrels, and thus are further developed, or oxidized, by the time they are bottled. Tawny and late-bottled vintage ports are in this category. A glass of port is a nice way to round down an evening. Serve 1 ounce in a port glass or in a very small white wine glass with blue-veined cheeses, bittersweet chocolate, or cigars. Vintage ports require decanting off of their sediment and spoil within 48 hours of opening. If you are just starting out, try $12 ruby port and compare it with the sweeter tawny version. These bottles will remain fresh for months
A fortified wine from the Douro region of Portugal. Styles of Port include Late Bottle (LB), Tawny Ruby, Aged, and Vintage. Mostly sweet and red, Port is usually served after dinner as a dessert wine. All Port is made by Port houses in Vila Nova de Gaia, on the southern bank of the Douro across from Portugal's second largest city, Oporto. Until recently, most Port houses were British-owned.
Port or Porto is fortified wine from the Douro region of Portugal. While the term Port is used as a generic term to describe all port-type wines, only wines produced in Portugal may use the Porto appellation.
a grape wine fortified with brandy, which often is used to flavor casseroles and desserts. It may also be drunk after dinner as a digestif.
A sweet, red, fortified wine, probably the most famous of the fortified wines traditionally served with dessert or after a meal.
