Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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Portuguese word meaning ‘farm’, which may also refer to a wine-producing estate or vineyard. Single-quinta ports are those made from a single year and from a single estate in the Douro Valley; see port.

  1. Liddell, A., and Price, J., Port Wine Quintas of the Douro (London, 1992).
  2. Mayson, R. J., Port and the Douro (3rd edn, Oxford, 2013).