Taylor’s Port Wine Cellars

与波尔图隔杜罗河（Douro）相望，在众多酒窖之中的 盖亚新城（Vila Nova de Gaia）, Taylor’s has been making port wine since 1692 — one of the oldest of the founding houses of the trade, still in its fourth century of work. Its cellars on the Gaia hillside hold the long, slow ageing of the wood-aged ports, and the name has become shorthand for the whole trade.

三个世纪的波特酒

The house grew from English wine merchants who settled on the Gaia bank in the 1690s, where the cellars’ cool granite kept the wines steady on the journey to the sea. In the nineteenth century the firm’s estates moved upriver into the Douro valley: the rugged vineyards of the Quinta de Vargellas, bought in that century, became the cornerstone of its vintage ports and remain so today.

酒窖内部

仍在使用的酒窖深长幽暗，静谧中令人震撼：厚墙仓库里，波特酒在成排橡木桶和数米高的大酒槽中陈年。全新的参观路线讲解从葡萄到美酒的各个环节，品酒结束于露台之上，眼前是波尔图的屋顶和……的拱门 路易一世大桥（Ponte de D. Luís I） 就在下方。酒窖上方的花园里，孔雀如世代相传般在草坪上踱步。

值得一看的亮点

• 酒窖参观与博物馆路线
• 巨大的橡木酒槽与成排陈年酒桶
• 酒庄风格导览品鉴
• 露台上俯瞰波尔图与杜罗河（Douro）的景致
• 有孔雀的花园

实用信息

酒窖位于河岸盖亚一侧，距唐·路易斯一世大桥（Dom Luís I）上下两层桥面和波尔图中心河畔仅几步之遥。河畔街区步行便利，但上方山坡街道陡峭；参观与品酒多在每日进行，具体选项请见官网。

Image credit: Taylor’s Port Wine Cellar by Ray in Manila — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.