Portugal’s Douro region is famous for its port, but also produces fine, good-value reds and top nosh. Perfect, then, for thirsty foodies like our writer The Douro river is wild and tamed, fertile, ...

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 — particularly the Douro region — is becoming a hot destination for wine enthusiasts and travelers alike. It is unique from other wine-growing regions because of its terrain and soil, but ...

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.

One of Portugal's most endearing slices is the Douro River Valley, the winding, terraced region that produces the country's beloved port wine. This is Portugal's answer to Germany's romantic Rhine ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...