People have been making wine in the verdant hills of northern Portugal's Douro Valley for nearly 2,000 years. Nowadays, the region is home to more than 19,000 grape farmers and 1,000 companies tending ...

The world’s oldest demarcated wine region, the Douro Valley has long been known for its fortified wines. But along with its newly claimed title of European Wine City 2023, this striking area is ...

Some sixty miles (100 kilometers) east of the Portuguese city of Porto—along the Porto River—ascends the Douro Valley. Scenic hillsides include grapevines growing on carefully tended terraces. For ...

Yearning for a taste of adventure? Imagine cycling through the glorious hills of Portugal’s Douro Valley to see its terraced vineyards, quaint hillside villages, forests, epic vistas, amazing markets, ...

Portugal’s wine regions offer far more than great bottles — they reward travelers who choose the right places to stay. From ...

The Douro Valley is a place of extremes. Heat that shimmers off the schist, slopes so steep they’d give a mountain goat vertigo, a river that slices through the landscape like a well-aimed sabre. It’s ...

ENTRE-OS-RIOS, Portugal – Beneath terraces of vineyards and olive trees in the undulating landscape of northern Portugal so alluring that the region has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a ...

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Taylor’s Port has a history stretching to 1692, and it’s now part of the sweet red wine’s evolution. The storied port wine house in Portugal is now under the umbrella of the Fladgate Partnership, ...