FROM LEFT: Fonseca Siroco Extra Dry White Porto; Churchill’s Reserve Porto; Taylor Fladgate Reserve Tawny Porto. (Scott Suchman/for The Washington Post) Column by Dave McIntyre Port, the fortified ...

Port may be your grandma’s drink, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be your drink, too. Because here’s the thing: Port is really good. Named after Portugal’s city of Oporto, port is a fortified wine ...

As the holiday season begins, it’s not uncommon to start seeing port pop up on menus. This rich, fortified wine, which is made in the Douro Valley of Portugal, is often underappreciated, particularly ...

Slowly, port is shedding its image of old-fashioned grandeur. While the sweet after-dinner quaff still suffers from stodgy connotations of a pipe-smoking grandfather reading Proust by the fireplace, ...