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Definition: Port Wine |
Port WineNoun1. Sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Port Wine Lord Pembroke's port wine. This renowned wine is thus made- 27 gallons of rough cider, 13 gallons of Bone Carlo wine, 3 gallons of brandy. To make a hogshead of port. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Port wine (or Porto) is sweet, fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern part of Portugal; it takes its name from the city of Oporto, the centre of port trading. Port has been made in Portugal since the mid 15th century. Port became very popular in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703, when merchants were permitted to import it at a low duty. The continued English involvement in the port trade can be seen in the names of many port shippers: Croft, Taylor, Dow, Graham, Symington, etc. Similar wines, often also called "Port", are now made in several other countries, notably Australia and United States. In some nations, including the European Union only the product from Portugal may be labeled as "Port".Port wine is typically thicker, richer, sweeter, and possesses a higher alcohol content than most other wines. This is caused by the addition of distilled grape spirits to halt fermentation before all the sugar is converted to alcohol. It is commonly served after meals as a dessert wine, or with cheese.
Port comes in several varieties:A glass of port wine.
Unfortunately, while Porto produced in Portugal is strictly regulated by the Instituto do Vinho do Porto, many wines in the U.S. use the above names but do not conform to the same standards. Thus each genuine port style has a corresponding, often very different style that you will find on wines made outside Portugal.
- Vintage
- Tawny
- LBV (Late-Bottled Vintage)
- Vintage Character
- Ruby
- White
Vintage port is made entirely from grapes of a declared vintage year. Not every year is declared a vintage in the Douro, only those when conditions are favorable to particularly flavorful crops of grapes. The decision to declare a vintage is made by each individual port house, and is based on several factors, most notably the weather and the ability of the marketplace to absorb a new vintage. While it is by far the most renowned type of port, from a volume and revenue standpoint it actually makes up a small percentage of the production of a typical port house. Vintage ports are aged in barrels for a maximum of 2 years before bottling, and often require another 5 to 15 years of aging in the bottle before reaching what is considered proper drinking age. Since they are aged in barrels for only a short time, they retain their dark ruby color and fresh fruit flavors. Particularly fine vintage ports can continue to gain complexity and drink wonderfully for decades after they were bottled, and therefore can be particularly sought after and expensive wines.
"Port" produced outside of Portugal may be labeled with a vintage date, but is not real Vintage Porto and likely is meant for immediate consumption rather than extended aging.
Ruby and tawny Port may contain wine from several vintages. Vintage, ruby, and LBV ports are fermented in wood and aged in glass, which preserves the wine's red color.
LBV (Late-Bottled Vintage) port is intended to provide some of the experience of drinking a vintage port but without the decade-long wait. In contrast to vintage port's short time in barrel, LBV port is aged for several years in barrel to mature it more quickly. Typically ready to drink when released, LBV ports are the product of a single year's harvest and tend to be smoother and lighter-bodied than a vintage port. The confusingly named Vintage character port is similar to LBV port.
Tawny port is aged in wooden barrels, exposing it to gradual oxidation and evaporation, causing its color to mellow to a golden-brown after roughly ten years "in wood." Often they have pronounced "nutty" flavors. Most tawny port is a blend of several vintages, with the average years "in wood" stated on the label: 10, 15, 20, and 30 years are common. Tawny ports from a single vintage are called Colheitas. Tawny and Colheita ports are always ready to drink when released and do not typically benefit from aging in bottle, although they will not degrade either. Because is has already been exposed to oxygen, an open bottle of tawny resists oxidation the longest of all ports.
"Tawny" port produced outside Portugal is rarely aged long enough to develop a natural tawny color. Instead, it is the result of blending "ruby" and "white" ports, or possibly the addition of caramel coloring.
White port is made from white grapes, and generally served as a chilled aperitif. Ruby port is aged minimally, and is mostly used for cooking or blended into cocktails.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Port wine."
Synonym: Port WineSynonym: port (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
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Crosswords: Port Wine |
| English words defined with "port wine": bishop, Blackstrap ♦ Oporto ♦ Porto ♦ Rhatanhy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "port wine": Black Strap ♦ KILL PRIEST ♦ RED FUSTIAN ♦ Sublime Port. (references) |
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Health | Laser treatment is available to lighten and/or remove port wine stains. (references) | |
The convulsions usually appear on the side of the body opposite the port wine stain and vary in severity. (references) | ||
A weakening or loss of use of the side of the body opposite the port wine stain (hemiparesis) may also develop. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "port wine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | portvin (port). (various references) | |
Dutch | portwijn (port), port (postage). (various references) | |
French | vin de Porto (port). (various references) | |
German | Portwein (port). (various references) | |
Greek | κρασί ορτό (port). (various references) | |
Italian | vino di Porto (port). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボンド紙 (Bomby blood, bond paper, boneless ham, bonnet, compressed gas cylinder, hood, pause, poker, poker face, Poland, polar tie, poral, porcelain, porch, pork, pork chop, pork cutlet, pork saute, port, port cutlet, port tower, portability, portable, porter, portfolio, pose, pouch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ポートワイン . (various references) | |
Manx | feeyn Portugeasagh (port). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortpay ineway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vinho do porto (port). (various references) | |
Russian | портвейн (port). (various references) | |
Spanish | vino de Oporto (port). (various references) | |
Swedish | portvin (port). (various references) | |
Turkish | porto şarabı (port). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: pointer, protein, tropine. | |
-2 letters: norite, orient, orpine, pointe, powter, protei, pterin, tonier, townie, tropin, twiner, winter. | |
-3 letters: inept, inert, inter, intro, irone, netop, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, opine, orpin, owner, pewit, pinot, pinto, piton, point, power, print, prion, prone, repin, repot, rewin, rewon, ripen, rowen, tenor, toner, toper, tower, towie, trine, tripe, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-p-r-t-w" | |
+2 letters: waitperson. | |
+3 letters: outpowering, waitpersons. | |
+5 letters: waterproofing. | |
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