There is no doubt about the importance of the Douro wine region in the wine market worldwide. Universally renowned and recognised, its wine reflects the quantity of unique aromas and the wealth of knowledge produced in this land (PEREIRA, 1991: 5-6; FONSECA, s/d: 5-6). Formed by schist terraces, the so-called “Wine Country”, reflects the history of the first demarcated and regulated wine region in the world and offers a monumental anthropic landscape.
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