Graham's Port Lodge
Historic riverside port wine lodge with aging cellars, oak casks and tasting rooms open to visitors.
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This guide to Graham's Port Lodge in Porto begins in 1820 with two Scottish cloth merchants, William and John Graham, accepting a customer's unpaid bill in barrels of rough Portuguese wine instead of cash, and being surprised by what they tasted. It follows the family's shift from Glasgow's textile trade into port, the 1890 lodge built on this hillside, and a young Scot named Andrew Symington who apprenticed here before leaving to build a rival house. Listen for the hillside's damp Atlantic air, the detail the guide credits for how well this port ages.
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