Oporto, also known as Porto, is the second-largest city in Portugal. A fairly well-known beverage is named after it: Port wine. While the grapes are grown elsewhere, the fortified wine is packaged, transported, and exported in Oporto.

She Changes, also known as “An Anemona,” is a sculpture by American artist Janet Echelman.

Old trolley, still in service, advertising a popular local beverage.

Sign on a store’s door

Gustave Eiffel, a structural engineer who built a Tower in Paris, built the bridge in this image.

Taylor Fladgate, often called Taylor’s, is one of the premier wine houses producing Port. The company was founded by an English merchant named Job Bearsley in 1692. Its production is based in Oporto, with wineries in the Duoro Valley in Portugal. The company is named after later English owners, Joseph Taylor and  John Fladgate.

Port is a fortified wine made by adding a neutral grape spirit, aguardiente, to stop fermentation. This leaves residual sugar and boosts the alcohol content, giving Port its unique sweetness and flavors. Most commonly a red wine, it is also produced as a milder White Port. Port can only be a product of Portugal and, until 1986, could only be exported out of Oporto.

Two British cartoons in the tasting room. The text in this one says, “Open another ’08, Hargreaves, this is what I call a full-bodied Port!!!” Handwritten notes by the artist detail print changes to the cartoon.

White Port, called Chip Dry, is combined with Tonic Water, preferably British style, to make a popular Portuguese beverage named Portonic.

This is VOP, Very Old Port. Very expensive.

This is VVOP, Very Very Old Port. Very, very expensive. Some of the barrels date back to before World War Two.

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Oporto, Potugal
06/25/24