{"id":888,"date":"2016-02-22T22:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38.242.230.232\/~portoalities\/?p=888"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:11:27","slug":"why-are-port-wine-cellars-in-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/en\/why-are-port-wine-cellars-in-gaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Port wine cellars in Gaia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To answer question I made a video (actually it is the first video of Portoalities, I am over the moon! \ud83d\ude42 Besides the video, on this post I explain to you in detail why the Port wine cellars are in Gaia and not in Porto, and I included some old pictures, I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Porque \u00e9 que as caves do vinho do Porto s\u00e3o em Gaia?!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9oaEw3d--_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Port wine never sets &#8220;a foot&#8221; in the city of Porto, despite its name. It comes straight from the <a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/top-vineyards-in-douro-valley\/\">vineyards in the Douro Valley<\/a> to Port wine cellars located in Vila Nova de Gaia, just across D. Luis I bridge. Why so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-12935 size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ancient-map-porto-gaia-port-wine-cellars.png\" alt=\"ancient map porto gaia port wine cellars\" class=\"wp-image-12935\"\/><figcaption>Ancient map of both Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. The green rectangle is the area where all Port wine cellars are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The main reason was politics. In 1255, king D. Afonso III gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foral letter<\/a> to the Gaia (a small village that later joined the village of Villa Nova, creating the current city Vila Nova de Gaia), located in front of Porto, just across the Douro river. The goal was to transfer commercial trade away from Porto, as only the Bishop and the Catholic Church were benefitting from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dom-afonso-III-port-wine-cellars-gaia.jpg\" alt=\"dom afonso III port wine cellars gaia\" class=\"wp-image-12936\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-cellars-painting-gaia.jpg\" alt=\"port wine cellars painting gaia\" class=\"wp-image-12937\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the Bishop was entitled to charge what was know as <em>Portagem da Terra<\/em>, which can be roughly translated to &#8220;toll of the land&#8221;, which included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; 1% of the commercial value of all the products bought in Porto by people that were not from the city;<br>&#8211; 1% of the commercial value of all the products bought in Porto that were going to be exported (not mistake this toll with custom duty: this was an extra toll!);<br>&#8211; 1% of the commercial value of all the products that would be sold in Porto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Port wine traders, in order to escape these tolls, opened up their Port wine cellars in Gaia, much to the dismay of the Bishop of Porto.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12938 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-traders-gaia-porto.jpg\" alt=\"port wine traders gaia porto\" width=\"900\" height=\"386\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-12934 size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cais-gaia-port-wine-cellars-location.jpg\" alt=\"cais gaia port wine cellars location\" class=\"wp-image-12934\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Nuno Cruz Street, of Cais de Gaia, where all Port wine cellars are located.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also other reasons, of morphological nature. These terrains in Vila Nova de Gaia were rich in water mines, so almost each cellar had their own private water supply. Moreover, Gaia is a facing North (so it has less solar exposure) and it is sheltered from strong winds, therefore having a milder temperature, providing good ageing conditions for Port wines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Save this article for later:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"487\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-barrels.png\" alt=\"port wine barrels\" class=\"wp-image-28779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-barrels.png 325w, https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-barrels-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"487\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-bottles.png\" alt=\"port wine bottles\" class=\"wp-image-28780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-bottles.png 325w, https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/port-wine-bottles-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To answer question I made a video (actually it is the first video of Portoalities, I am over the moon!\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[276,278,16,281,48],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food_wine","tag-cellars","tag-gaia","tag-port-wine","tag-porto","tag-rabelo-boats"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History of the Port wine lodges in Porto | Blog Portoalities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Port wine is produced in the Douro Valley but it is oftenly aged in the cellars in Gaia. 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