An Introduction to Port

06/04/22 • 29 min

Hailing from the nation or Portugal, Port encompasses a rich and complex variety of dessert wines. Port is one of the oldest designated wine regions in the world, so there is a lot of history, production techniques, and labeling terms to cover. Our goal in this episode is to break down the complexity and give you a straight-forward guide to finding a bottle for yourself!

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You can find a labeled map of Burgundy here should you be curious to find out more of the individual villages and cru vineyards: https://vineyards.com/wine-map/france/burgundy

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