US Airways - September 2012 - (Page 16)

explore Wine & Dine taste, savor, enjoy Best Feet Forward For centuries, port wine has been made by stomping grapes. That tradition is quickly vanishing — but a few purists remain. by Nick passmore ★ Tink-tonk, tink-tonk, tink-tonk. It’s nine o’clock at night and the drab granite fermentation tank at Quinta de Vargellas, high in Portugal’s Douro Valley, rings with the sound of a cheap electric piano. Vargellas is the flagship quinta, or estate, of the Fladgate Partnership (makers of the Taylor Fladgate, Croft, and Fonseca brands of port), and it’s harvest time. The workers have spent a long day in the vineyard picking grapes, and are now earning a few extra euros participating in the ancient practice of foot treading the grapes. september 2012 And despite this uninspiring setting, the piano player’s captive audience appears to be as enthusiastic as if they were listening to Billy Joel. In the nearby lagares, the large granite fermentation troughs, some 20 people, young and old, men and women, local peasants and visiting students, are immersed thigh-deep in a purple sludge, known better as grape must. Singing, dancing, and beating handheld drums in time with the music, they pass around a bottle as they stomp and churn the grapes, beginning the process of turning them into port wine. Known as pisa a pe — literally “press by foot” — this is how port has been made for three centuries, but the times are surely changing. The 21st century is slowly arriving in the Douro Valley, a world that until recently had barely embraced the 20th. For hundreds of years, foot treading has proved an extremely efficient method of crushing photos (top) © ArmAndo FrAncA/Ap/corbis, (bottom) courtesy oF tAylor FlAdgAte port Wine Above: the liberdade at Quinta do Vesuvio Below: taylor Fladgate’s final product 16 usairwaysmag.com http://www.usairwaysmag.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of US Airways - September 2012

Table of Contents
CEO Letter
From the Editor
Did You Know?
Making It Happen: Flying Past
Hot Spots: Best Group Getaways
Wine & Dine: Best Feet Forward
Adventure: The Joy of Tranquillity
Adventure: The Zac Brown Band
Great Escapes: Nova Scotia
Gear Up: On the Go
An Island Apart: Puerto Rico
Trained for Takeoff
Kentucky: A Great Place to Live and Work
Charlotte, N.C.: Crowning the Queen City
University Spotlight: Liberty University
Puzzles
Readers Resource Index
Your US Airways Guide
Video Entertainment
Audio Entertainment
U.S. and Caribbean Service Map
International Service Map
Airport Terminal Maps
US Airways Fleet/Customs & Immigration
Passenger Info/Contact US Airways
US Airways MarketPlace®
Window or Aisle?

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