For The Love Of Port

Dear Frédérick , You're welcome. I'm glad you liked the L'Express article. Because it's written in french, I must confess your name ( Frédérick Blais - Port Disciple from Montreal ) crossed my mind at the moment I was posting it here. Now I'm glad to notice you like it. Great. Thanks. /Mário. Dear ...

L'Express du 29/08/2005 Le Douro au fil des quintas par Elodie Klein Ces haltes de charme sont nombreuses dans la région Un océan vert chatoyant où les vagues s'arrondissent, gonflent et finissent par s'éteindre doucement dans un fleuve paisible. Nous sommes dans la vallée du Douro, où, sur près de ...

... and here is a link for my pics of Oporto and the Douro Valley.

http://community.webshots.com/user/marioferreira

In the best of my knowledge, between Portugal and the US there are only two regular carriers, TAP [www.tap.pt] and Continental [www.continental.com], and both only do Newark-Lisbon. [One can also buy a ticket from Newark to Lisbon from American Airlines, but AA uses the TAP flight]. Between the USA ...

Just a reminder: Details of the new Regulation for the Special Categories of Port Wine may be found on the Newsletter FTLOP #9 June 2005, page 10. (For the ones who haven't gotten this Roy's newsletter, please let me know and I will be happy to forward my copy to you) 8). My input to this issue is t...

I'm not sure whether you both are familiar with Local Wine Events' website. [ www.localwineevents.com ]. It might be a good tool or resource to start with. When I do travel or before booking any wine event, first I tend to check this particular website to find out about general Wine Tastings taking ...

It's my pleasure to make available to readers of this Forum the following article of Florence Fabricant that was published in the The New York Times on August 3, 2005. I would like to make a note that I find curious to see an article on Port being published right in the middle of Summer in such pres...

note: The Info below was provided by Quinta do Noval. SILVAL 1997 VINTAGE Producer: QUINTA DO NOVAL VINHOS S.A. Wine Maker: António Agrellos Source of Grapes: The wine was made from grapes from QUINTA DO NOVAL - Vale de Mendiz, in the valley of the river Pinhão, a tributary of the Douro. Grape Varie...

Do not get confused, it is not made from grapes from the Quinta do Silval, it is only another Noval brand. Hi Fred. You are correct on this. A couple years ago I had the pleasure to meet Mr Carlos Magalhães , who explain me the brand SILVAL . Mr Magalhães, the owner of "Quinta do Silval" ...