which provide an ideal environment for growing grapes used to make the famous Port wine as well as exceptional dry red wines. Dão: South of the Douro is Dão, one of Portugal's oldest wine ...

The first Portuguese red wine I ever tasted was a Dão (pronounced ‘Dowm’) which I bought in Superquinn Kimmage in perhaps 1991, I don’t remember the vintage but it was at least ten years ...