The Viking Hemming was approaching the vast wall of the Carrapatelo Dam on the Douro River and we had a clear view of what ...

Home to sublime cuisine, boutique shopping, city beaches and plenty of wine, Porto is the superlative city break, finds ...

Albert, the charming sommelier, is pouring my fifth tasting glass of port. Through my port fog (such a waste not to drain each glass), I am learning about the differences between white ports ...

An electric boat company with roots in Torrance is taking steps to bring battery-powered workboats and charging infrastructure to the Port of Los Angeles, where diesel-burning vessels emit tons of ...

Former wine cargo Rabelo boats – from which the hotel takes its name – are drydocked outside, and the area’s most famous port lodges (Grahams, Taylor’s and Cockburns) are all within walking distance.

There's gold, for the sun-drenched countryside, red for the vibrant red port and green for ... a raging torrent on which wine producers risked their lives as they sailed their produce to the coast in ...

The rabelo boats once used to transport barrels of Porto wine from the Douro valley vineyards to the Port Wine cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia now take travellers along a historic guided river cruise.

flat-bottomed rabelo boats plied the then-dangerous waters, transporting barrels of port from the quintas to the coastal city of Porto. Nowadays, more prosaically, the wine is transported by road.