The Explore 4: The New Douro Gift Pack

SommSelect’s “Explore 4” club is about adventure: Curated around a monthly theme, it’s a guided tour of the grapes, places, producers, and practices any true wine lover needs to know. This one-time offer is a chance to experience one of our recent club releases, “The New Douro,” which takes an in-depth look at Portugal’s dynamic Douro Valley.Many tourists have traversed the Douro Valley, perhaps not realizing that this cavernous, terraced, UNESCO World Heritage Site is considered the first “protected region of origin” in the world. Historically, vintners floated their produce downriver to merchant-shippers (most of them British) in Oporto, the coastal city which eventually lent its name to the region’s famous fortified wines.This region is most famous for Ports—sweet, fortified wines that are no longer very fashionable—but one of the biggest stories in wine right now is the Douro’s pivot to dry table wines, both red and white. Here are four favorites, culled from countless options. Dou