For The Love Of Port

Hmmm...I've often wondered whether any female winemakers in the Douro took objection to the implied gender-exclusivity of the "Douro Boys"....(notwithstanding their female PR agent)

As to the linked article, I'd agree the first picture was odd, but probably just a misguided effort to convey the idea of breaking the wine world's glass ceiling using whatever stock images they had at hand.

In terms of the following contention:

In the intro, Shaw writes, “The fact that there are enough powerful women working in wine to warrant a top 50 is a sign of how far the industry has come in a short space of time.” I question the historicity of this fact. A closer scrutiny argues that women have long had a place in winemaking, whether you’re talking about Champagne titan the Widow Cliquot, or California’s Josephine Tychson, Lily Langtree, Kate Warfield and others in the late nineteenth century, or Italy’s longstanding tradition of grappa-making women.

I've no doubt that one can find examples of prominent women through all eras of winemaking (and the Douro has its own great example), but i'd be genuinely surprised if the opportunities for women more generally to rise to positions of influence within all areas of the wine industry have not very significantly improved over the last half century and in particular over the last 20-25 years. Resorting to grappa making to illustrate a point about winemaking seems particularly unconvincing!