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Port production
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Do Port producers still squash the grapes between their toes?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Last year I went to a Port quinta festival where grapes are trod in lagar. It's a fantastic experience - a 200-year-old ritual for pickers and cellar workers, who link arms and have a fun time. Port producers need to extract as much colour and flavour as possible from the grapes before fermentation starts, and treading is the gentlest and most effective way to do this. The big problem in the Douro is labour. Only three per cent of Port is produced in lagar, because of this.