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A few Portuguese Wines

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By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

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The history of port is closely associated with the history of England, and had it not been that English wine merchants developed the vineyards of the Douro Oporto and adapted a wine to please the English palate, port, as we know it to-day, might not have existed.

The first real port to be shipped to England was that shipped by two young English wine merchants in the year 1576. The story goes that they tasted a wine entirely new to them at a monastery near Oporto, and were so delighted with it that they promptly bought all they could find, doctored it with a little Portuguese brandy—a practice which is still followed—and despatched it to England. But it was not till the famous Methuen Treaty in 1703 that port became really popular in England.

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