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The district producing Port Wine commences about 30 miles
inland from Oporto and extends to the Spanish frontier. The
vineyards are planted on specially laid out terraces along the
steep hillsides of the valley of the river Douro.
Port Wine is grown and made in a specified district called
the Douro, must test at least 18° (Gay Lussac), and must be
shipped from Oporto. As in every wine growing country,
the crop varies every year. Nevertheless the production of
Port Wine for the last ten years averages almost ten million
gallons a year. England imports about half the yearly production.
The Standard gauge of a pipe of Porto Wine is 115 gallons or
522 litres or 690 bottles.
MADEIRA
Madeira Island, about 400 miles from the Portuguese coast,
produces very excellent but heavy wine, a fairly dry kind
and a very sweet one.
Long sea voyages,— it is still said,— are necessary greatly to
improve that famous product.
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