Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ENTRE-OS-RIOS, Portugal — Beneath terraces of vineyards and olive trees in the undulating landscape of northern Portugal, a crowd ...

Along the Douro River in Portugal wine has been grown for centuries. This is also where the world-famous port wine comes from. Find out what makes it so special in part 16 of our series "Extreme ...

Portugal is best known, of course, for Port, the fortified sweet red wine enjoyed mainly as an after-dinner drink, perhaps with cheese, more often with chocolate and, on occasion, with a good cigar.

Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro region for some 2,000 years. Since the 18th century, its main product, port wine, has been world famous for its quality. This long ...

In the Douro Valley near Pinhao, Portugal. The Douro Valley is one of the world’s best known wine regions. (In fact, it’s the oldest demarcated wine region—declared way back in 1756, when it was a ...

“We haven’t had rain since November,” Jorge Serôdio Borges tells me as we scramble up the steep and dusty slope of his prized vineyard, Pintas. Grey clouds blanket the sky above us, but despite the ...

ENTRE-OS-RIOS, Portugal — Beneath terraces of vineyards and olive trees in the undulating landscape of northern Portugal, a crowd of locals gathered to watch our boat squeeze through one of five ...

In my experience, there isn't a wine growing region anywhere on the planet to touch the Douro. It's pretty enough on the Spanish side of the border,... In my experience, there isn't a wine growing ...