The New York Times on Porto and the Douro region.

A beautiful article about a beautiful city in a beautiful country. And beautiful wine!

And it seems that Bruni agrees with me on the quality of Portugal's national pride:

"And in Portugal you encounter a pride of place, like Mr. Pereira’s, that doesn’t bleed into the kind of arrogance it can in a country over which the whole world fawns. Portugal’s self-regard is defensive, pleading, sweet."