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Porto
41.1556°N -8.6267°W · Q33707919
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Porto. It sits in Portugal.
portnoun · 17th century
Well attestedThe dessert wine is named for the harbor that sent it out.
Port wine takes its English name from Porto, the Portuguese city from which the Douro wine was exported. The harbor’s name became the drink.
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port winenoun · 17th century
Well attestedNamed for the harbor it left from, not the valley it grew in.
The grapes ripen far up the Douro, but the wine was aged in lodges at Vila Nova de Gaia and shipped out past Porto, so English merchants named it for the port of departure. The Douro was demarcated in 1756, making it one of the first wine regions anywhere to be defined by law.
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