Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Finally, Some Ports

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Fredric Koeppel
Sep 14, 2009
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Readers may have been thinking, "So, F.K. went to the Douro Valley, and so far he has written about red table wines and white wines and eating cod innards, but what about Port, which is of course what the Douro is all about?"

Today we get to that, but first some history.

How Port Got Fortified

Trade between England and Portugal, which had been carried out…

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