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Old Wine
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Copyright: Jan Vranken (Mangoman) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 177 W: 9 N: 79] (813)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007
Categories: Architecture, Experimental, Abstract
Camera: FujiFilm FinePix S5700
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-09-30 8:42
Viewed: 328
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Porto (sometimes spelled Oporto) is both the second-largest city in Portugal and the capital of the port wine industry. If you've ever been tricked into drinking so-called "port" from California or New York, banish those knock-offs from your taste memory: True port or Porto wine is produced only in the world's oldest demarcated wine region--the Douro Valley--under supervision by the Port Wine Institute.

The grapes used for port wine are grown, harvested, crushed, and fermented on quintas or wine estates upriver. The best-known brands of port wine are then brought to Vila Nova de Gaia--across the River Douro from Porto's old town--for blending, aging, bottling, and distribution by wine lodges such as Cálem, which began shipping port wine to Brazil (in exchange for exotic woods) in 1859.

Like other Porto wine lodges, Cálem is open to tourists. For a nominal fee (two euros during my visit), you can tour the renovated cellars that earned an international "Best of Wine Tourism" award for architecture in 2006.
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  • leeloo Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 277 W: 0 N: 11] (2696)
  • [2008-09-30 12:25]

Dear Jan Vranken!
Wonderful point of view.
Original composition.
Very good capture.
Interesting picture.
TFS!

hey Jan ,

great framing of this picture. i like the detailed shot of these old wine houses and the diagonal lines. Especially the little windows of the wine houses is a reverse to the
"windows"/open spaces of the filmstrip frame. Very strong
presentation.

greetz Perry

Hello Jan,
great graphic shot,
lovely lines and pov,
I like the frame
thank you for sharing Caesar

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