Wine Accessories and Glasses

Port wine sippers are unique wine glasses designed specifically so that your hand warms the spirits as you sip slowly through the stem. This method enhances the flavor of liquors and port wines. Port wine is typically heavier, sweeter, and has a higher alcohol content than most wines. Port is usually a sweet red wine, but also comes in dry, semi-dry, and a white variety.

Port is produced from grapes grown and processed in the Duoro region of Portugal. It is then fortified with brandy to stop the fermentation, leaving residual sugar in the wine to boost the alcohol content. The wine is then aged in cellars or caves before being bottled.

Port received its name in the latter half of the 17th Century from Porto, a seaport city at the mouth of the Douro River, where it was brought to market or exported to other European countries.  The Douro valley where port is produced,  is now a protected region,  and is the third oldest wine region in the world,  after Tokaji and Chianti.