Port wine left ("pass the port to port") and for the bottle or decanter not to touch the table on its way around, though some cultures reject this tradition. If a diner fails to pass the port, others at the table may ask "Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?" The Port and Douro Wines Institute is an official body belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture of Portugal and is a key institution in promoting the industry and knowledge of making port wine. It was previously known as the Instituto do Vinho do Porto. Producers of port wine are often called "shippers".
Bartholomew Broadbent him one of the “fifty most influential in the wine world…the faces to watch in the new millennium” in 1997. Wine & Spirits magazine named him one of ten in the world to be “driving the most revolutionary changes in wine” in 2008. His company Broadbent Selections Inc was nominated one of the top five wine importers by Wine Enthusiast magazine in 2005. He was made a Cavaleiro of the Confraria do Vinho do Porto in 1989 and is a past Director of Steven Spurrier’s L’Academie du Vin and a founder of L’Academie du Vin in Toronto. Broadbent produces, under