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The 55th Annual Oregon Country Fair is scheduled for July 12-14, operating 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., daily. About 45,000 people attend the three-day event. Tickets are sold through aftontickets.com .
Vintage Graham's port produced by the Symingtons. Symington Family Estates is a wine company and Port wine house in Portugal, which owns and operates several vineyards and wineries and owns several brands of Port, Madeira wine and Douro DOC wines, including some of the oldest and most well-known Port and Madeira brands.
Douro is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Douro River in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. It is sometimes referred to as the Alto Douro (upper Douro), as it is located some distance upstream from Porto , sheltered by mountain ranges from coastal influence.
The Douro vinhateiro (vine-land) of the Douro Valley in Portugal, long devoted to vineyards, has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The wine was taken downriver in flat-bottom boats called rabelos , to be stored in barrels in cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia , just across the river from Porto .
The Oregon Country Fair welcomed a crowd of attendees to start its third post-pandemic fair Friday. There were enough fairgoers traffic was backed up to Territorial Highway as of 12:30 p.m. Friday.
In Portuguese, a quinta is a wine producing estate, which can be a winery or a vineyard. While other wine classification systems may classify the winery (such as the 1855 Bordeaux classification ), the Douro quinta classification is based upon the physical characteristics of the vineyard.
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It replaced the Comunidade Urbana do Douro, created in 2004. [1] It takes its name from the Douro River. The seat of the intermunicipal community is Vila Real. Douro comprises parts of the former districts of Bragança, Guarda, Vila Real and Viseu. The population in 2011 was 205,157, [2] in an area of 4,031.58 square kilometres (1,556.60 sq mi ...