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Wine of the Day, No. 409

Wine of the Day, No. 409

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Fredric Koeppel
Jul 09, 2018
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Vintage Port, the long-lived fortified wine from Portugal's Douro Valley, is a fairly specialized product whose sales, in the latter third of the 20th Century, declined. What to do with all those grapes, if not make them, as tradition dictated, into Port? A generation ago, the Port houses came up with a solution; take the same grape varieties that go i…

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