An excellent article about the Douro Valley as a tourist destination

[Andy Velebil]

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/the ... ne-country

what do you think of it?

[Roy Hersh]

I'll let others comment about the content, but want to correct an omission of fact: Sogrape also owns Offley.

[goncalo devesas]

Nice.
Not very important, but I´ve to say that nowadays is about 39100 grape growers and 45700 hect cultivated

[Moses Botbol]

"For the record, a night at Romaneira runs $682 dollars a person. But that includes all meals (Miguel Silva, Oporto's most famous chef, consulted on the menu)."

Sounds pretty fancy; not many Portuguese from SE Mass would spend that kind of money on a hotel room, food included or not.

[Glenn E.]

Another correction of fact:

The Douro (1756) is not the oldest demarcated wine region in the world, it is the 3rd oldest after Chianti (1716) and Tokaj (Wikipedia lists 1730, another source lists 1700).

[Eric Menchen]

I'd seen pictures of the Romaneira that made me want to stay there, but for the price I can stay elsewhere and buy a lot of high quality Port. Despite the errors, a nice article.

[Moses Botbol]

Where's the youth hostile and jug wine for the economy tourist?

[Andy Velebil]

Where's the youth hostile and jug wine for the economy tourist?

http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetail ... orto/41438

The Wine Hostel in Oporto

[Russ K]

good article, sold to the high end spender pretty well....