There are also strong economic ties between the UK and Portugal, and several of the big port houses were started by Brits/Scots. Cockburn’s, for instance, was started by a Scot who’s been there with Wellington fighting the French during the Napoleonic Wars. Sandeman, Dow, Taylor, there are several others that fall into this category.
Very interesting. I hadn’t been aware of that.
What I have read, however, is that in the Middle Ages as well as later, Portuguese wines were popular in England as well.
Furthermore, Portuguese and Spanish wine exports to England intensified after England had lost Aquitaine, for obvious reasons.
:-)
So the UK is to blame for Mateus?.........................