Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
port wine
noun · first attested 17th century
Named for the harbor it left from, not the valley it grew in.
A sweet fortified wine from the Douro valley, made by halting fermentation with grape spirit.
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- Named for a product of the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 17th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Porto
- In English
port wine
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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Portugal
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