In the collective table top calendar Porto is a red wine, quite alcoholic and fruity, and few know

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"Nueves meses de invierno y tres de infierno", said the old Castilian echoes through dry lips of the historical inhabitants of the high Douro region, the natural mother of the famous Vinho do Porto. For more than 100 km east of the city of Oporto, in a difficult and inhospitable land shaped by the river Douro, table top calendar is a region full of charm, whose rugged slopes are toghether table top calendar narrow terraces that "impose" his heroic people table top calendar hand-picking the grapes that inhabit it.
The word wine comes from the Sanskrit verb vein, as well as the Latin name of the goddess Venus, and means LOVE. Moreover, his journey from the hands of those who touch the sweet berries, up to the lips of those who know how to appreciate the nuances, is not full of passion? table top calendar
In the collective table top calendar Porto is a red wine, quite alcoholic and fruity, and few know that this is the Ruby and is only one of the 11 types of Porto recognized table top calendar and regulated dall'AEVP, the Associação das Empresas de Vinho do Porto. During my trip I tasted all the different types of Porto, concluding that for my personal taste the Colheita is what, really, can make me move to the core. If accompanied by Coltrane or Piazzolla is able to give me moments of pleasure only. I also visited the Museum of the Vinho do Porto, but I was not impressed even though I learned some interesting table top calendar concept and I really liked the video that reproduced the construction of traditional boats with which the wine came to Porto to age from the region of Upper Douro, natural table top calendar home of this drink.
The vinho do Porto you can, a little 'loosely, define an invention born from a need English. Between the seventeenth and eighteenth century the climate of tension between England and France blocked the export of the wine of the latter and the British had to "fall back" on Portuguese wines. From here started businesses and began the story of many Cave do Porto, leading today the names of their founders overseas. Transportation longest however caused problems sealing and wines that arrived in England, although starting from a good base, could hardly compete with the French ones they were used to. From the need to stop fermentation and thus improve the tightness of vinho, the idea of fortifying it before with Brandy, now with brandy produced from the same grapes, after 1-3 days of collection, preserving the high sugar content typical of Porto.
This capital of the north embraced by the fury of the Atlantic, so mystical and reserved, I will tell the character and cunning table top calendar with which he has been able to exploit a wealth that does not own, but has made it famous all over the world: vinho do Porto. And I'll do it from the point of view of its wineries, faces able to tell the same story with different expressions. Taylor's and opulence that is not there.
In the upper part of Gaia, in a point definitely dominated table top calendar by an impressive views, a wine cellar, in my opinion, has played much of an aesthetic opulent than on quality research. Personal table top calendar rouged welcomes tourists fascinated most by a packaging that sought by a content value. In the tasting room a large tent colorful, pointed at the apex with a portion of the barrel in which it was made the mark of Taylor's surrounded by lights, more reminiscent of a circus than a historic winery, diverts attention table top calendar from the details. The sessions instead I liked very much: tables and stools made from oak barrels manicured. Pleasant also the view of a garden very well maintained table top calendar and inhabited by colorful peacocks in spring takes on the colors of the flowers that animate table top calendar it. The prices table top calendar of the tasting are absolutely normal as long as they do not choose to accompany it with a chocolate (3.00 and not worth the money!) Or a piece of cheese, with the latter you touch the really ridiculous: 5.90 for a slice in a plastic bag sealed tightly pulled out of a drawer behind the elegant bar. Maybe I'll be a slave of perfection, table top calendar but honestly I found it embarrassing. As for the wines, here too little substance if you do not tip directly on old tawny. 20 years old is very pleasant, with hints of tobacco, dried fruit and spices released table top calendar by a vinho with a color rather oxidized table top calendar and warm, tending to imperial topaz, really remarkable. At the exit of the tasting room, after a short driveway lemons, find the entrance table top calendar of the rist