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port wine

n. A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal.

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port wine

n. sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal [syn: port]

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Port wine

Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, , Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet, red wine, often served as a dessert wine, though it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties. Fortified wines in the style of port are also produced outside Portugal, most notably in Australia, France, South Africa, Canada, India, Argentina, and the United States. Under European Union Protected Designation of Origin guidelines, only the product from Portugal may be labelled as port or Porto. In the United States, wines labelled "port" may come from anywhere in the world, while the names "Oporto", "Porto", and "Vinho do Porto" have been recognised as foreign, non-generic names for Port wines originating in Portugal.

Usage examples of "port wine".

However, they allowed him to discuss the question, while they discussed his port wine.

John Forster rose, and taking two bottles of port wine from the sideboard, placed them on the table, and addressed Newton.

The Portuguese and the English have always been the best of friends, because we can't get no port wine anywhere else, and they can't get nobody else to buy it of them.

I worked for the Real Companhia Velha, which is responsible for the regulation of the trade of port wine.

Mr Lewis had dealt with the medical situation perfectly well in Stephen's absence, but there was a most unfortunate deficiency in the portable soup and port wine intended for invalids: they and two Winchester quarts of Liquor Ammoniac Acetatis had quite certainly been stolen by some criminal hand as yet unknown, misled by, the liquor part of the label.