The Big Three most common fortified wines are Portuguese port, Spanish sherry, and Sicilian marsala (we even like to add this one to our tiramisu), all of which are wildly different from each other.

Port is a fortified wine that’s made exclusively in Portugal’s Douro region. “Fortified” means it’s made by adding distilled grape spirits (like brandy) to wine. Other fortified wines ...

Thirteen fortified wines took Gold medals at the recently completed International Wine and Spirits Competition. The Gold medalists included five port wines, four Madeira, and four Sherry wines.

You might think port can only be served with dessert, but this fortified wine from Portugal is about more than its sweet, save-for-after-dinner reputation. "Port is a drink that not everybody ...

But what even is port? Quite simply it is a fortified wine which can only come from one place – the Douro Valley in northern Portugal. It is a staggeringly beautiful region of vertiginous ...

(Scott Suchman/for The Washington Post) Column by Dave McIntyre Port, the fortified wine from the Douro Valley in Portugal, is one of my favorites. I love the history of the region; the variety of ...

As the holiday season approaches, we look for sparkling wines to fuel our celebrations and fortified wines to wrap ... as well as an aged white port for dessert. Portugal, $22 Casa Santos Lima ...

True Port comes from the Douro Valley of Portugal (just as authentic Champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France). But other wine-producing regions have long borrowed the term to refer to ...

Convenience stores will soon be able to sell fortified wines like port and sherry alongside the various alcoholic beverages already being offered at thousands of retail locations across the ...