The production of Port Wine, comprising the complexity of an agricultural process involving several stages of transformation, as well as being strongly business-orientated, takes on specific characteristics determined by the natural conditions of its territory of origin, the relations between that territory and its markets and the history surrounding it. Technical evolution is, in this case, characterized by a ...
As we celebrate the 250 years of the Demarcated Region of the Douro, whose creation was determined by the royal charter of 10 September 1756, we believe to be important to try and understand not only the relevance of such ground-breaking measure in the international winegrowing context, which anticipated many aspects of the modern concept of denomination of controlled origin, but also its framing in the long hi...
In spite of the efforts made in the last two decades, we are still far from possessing a well established perspective of the long history of the wine cultivation in the Demarcated Region of Douro on the contrary of what happens concerning other regions of production. The development of the historical investigation about the vine-grower Douro implies the inventorying, preservation and creation of study condition...
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