The History of Port Wine

History of Port wine 波特酒的历史
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Grapes have been grown in Portugal since antiquity. The writings of Strabo, the great geographer of ancient Greece, indicate that inhabitants of the north west of the Iberian Peninsula were already drinking wine two thousand years ago. The Romans, who arrived in Portugal in the second century BC and remained for over five hundred years, grew vines and made wine on the banks of the Douro River where Port is produced today. The period of prosperity which followed the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1143 saw wine become an important export.
葡萄在葡萄牙种植在古代就有，Strabo，古希腊伟大的地理学家的著作中提到伊比利亚搬到西北部的居民在2000年前就已经喝葡萄酒了。罗马人在公元前2世纪来到葡萄牙并持续超过500年，种植葡萄酿造葡萄酒在多罗河畔也就是今天生产波特的地方。这段繁荣时期随着葡萄牙王国在1143年建国后葡萄酒变成了重要的出口商品。

However, the emergence of Port wine as we now know it occurred much later. The first wines known by this name were shipped in the second half of the 17th century.
In 1386 the Treaty of Windsor had established a close political, military and commercial alliance between England and Portugal. Under the terms of the treaty, each country gave the merchants of the other the right to reside in its territory and trade on equal terms with its own subjects. Strong and active trading links developed between the two countries and many English merchants settled in Portugal. By the second half of the 15th century a significant amount of Portuguese wine was being exported to England, often in exchange for salt cod known in Portuguese as bacalhau.
但是，波特酒的出现正如我们现在知道它出现要晚一点。这种酒初次被人所知是在17世纪后半叶