colheita [cuhl-YAY-tah]
Portuguese for “vintage.” On the label of a bottle of port, “colheita” indicates that the bottle is not vintage port but rather a tawny port harvested in the indicated year and aged in wood for a minimum of 7 years. colheita port is sometimes called dated port.
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