A large number of school classes from Portuguese schools have visited Oporto's Jewish museum monthly. Although that museum space is full of objects and documents relating to the history of Jews in Portugal, there is a very special room that has enchanted young people. It is a cellar full of bottles of port wine. The wine was made according to Jewish laws.
Although as a rule, students are not allowed to taste that wine, there have been some exceptions, when their teachers authorize them to drink it. The Community always respects the will of teachers, because its mission also involves contributing to national education and does not want students to return to their schools with alcohol in their blood.
Kosher port wine combines two hallmarks of the city: the wine itself made from Douro grapes and the fact that it is kosher, a Jewish characteristic and obligation, of a community that has inhabited the city for more than a millennium, perhaps two.
