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Fortified wine deliberately heated during ageing, making it nearly indestructible; an opened bottle lasts for months.
Sipped with dessert or cheese.
For readers of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
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Sweet fortified wine: brandy is added during fermentation, stopping it and keeping sugar. Styles: Ruby, Tawny, Vintage.
Custard tarts created by monks of Jerónimos Monastery.
Portugal's 'faithful friend', said to have 365 recipes.
Seafood and egg-yolk sweets; Portuguese sailors spread chillies to India.
The world's most planted red grape: full-bodied, tannic, with blackcurrant, cedar and mint. The backbone of Left Bank Bordeaux.
Softer and plummier than Cabernet, with chocolate notes. Pétrus, one of the world's most expensive wines, is almost all Merlot.
Light-bodied, silky red with cherry, raspberry and earthy notes. Difficult to grow, which is why great Burgundy is so prized.
Dark, peppery red. Called Syrah in France (savoury, smoky) and Shiraz in Australia (riper, jammy).
Inky, plush red with plum and violet. Argentina made it famous, grown at high altitude in the Andes.
Spain's signature red: cherry, leather and tobacco, often aged in oak. Labels show ageing: Crianza, Reserva, Gran Reserva.