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...Raise a glass of sweet, velvety port in the evening, and all at once you're part of a time-honored tradition?because the port-wine area in Portugal's Douro region is home to the world's oldest formal wine demarcation. In 1756, Prime Minister Marques de Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along...
...Indeed, some of the wine's most passionate defenders have come from Britain. In 1831, a young Englishman, Joseph James Forrester, came to Porto, learned Portuguese, mapped the Douro region, wrote treatises on grape growing and exhorted the wine growers to stop adulterating their wines with sugar, elderberry and brandy. That legacy lives on in the large, dark, cool cave of Graham's, part of the Symington group and typical of the lodges open to tourists. Visitors learn every step of the wine-making process while taking in the strong smell of aging wine and grand views...
...this summer's De-Lovely, a movie musical about the master tunesmith's complex relationship with his wife, muse and taskmistress, LINDA LEE PORTER, played by ASHLEY JUDD. Kline--who has experience with sexually ambiguous characters from 1997's In & Out--portrays the composer as a "lover of wine, men and song," he says. He sang 95% of his tunes in the film live rather than lip-synching over a score. "These songs are part of our musical collective unconscious," Kline says. "Or our Muzakal unconscious; we hear them in malls now." With artists like Alanis Morissette, Robbie Williams...
Raise a glass of sweet, velvety port in the evening, and all at once you're part of a time-honored tradition - because the port wine area in Portugal's Douro region is home to the world's oldest formal wine demarcation. In 1756, Prime Minister Marques de Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along...
Across the street, the wine list at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's Foliage is packed with beautiful champagnes and Bordeaux, but what caught my eye were hard-to-find regional French wines. I chose the Coulee de Serrant 1989, a legendary Loire white made from Chenin Blanc grapes from the town of Savennieres. With aromas and tastes of lychee and dried apples, it worked with everything from the herb-crusted lamb to the tender spring artichokes...