The Wine Demystifier

After last week’s foray into Spain, this week we move slightly further west on the Iberian Peninsula, into Portugal –to explore Port. PORT Fortification process - Unlike Sherry, with Port the wine is fortified during fermentation (and after a fairly short and quite vigorous period of extraction - which put simply means punching down the cap of skins to ensure tannins and colour is extracted into the red wine) Note: This is still sometimes done by the traditional method ie…