Port wine
Port wine belongs to the classics within the world of noble beverages, a fact which is surprising enough since port is a beverage you cannot pigeonhole. With its alcohol content of usually around 20 percent by volume, it is not a spirit, yet on the other hand it is not a wine in the original sense of the word either, since the alcohol content of wine has a natural limit at around 15 percent by volume. Fortified with the addition of distilled grape spirits, it sits comfortably on the fence between wines and spirits.
Its origin lies in the Douro valley of modern-day Portugal. This region was already known for its fine wine by the Romans, and this is why they annexed it to the Roman Empire without further ado. The prospects were so promising that the Romans founded the settlement Cale with its port Portus Cale at the Douro estuary. The name Porto derived from this, and ultimately even the name of the country Portugal can be traced back to this settlement.