Top 100 wines of Porto - Page 2
Discover the top 100 best wines of Porto of Porto as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Porto and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Porto
One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
Douro Valley, aged at Vila Nova de Gaia.
Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca
Aromatic and refined reds with an elegant structure, featuring raspberry, blackberry, rose, lavender, cistus and gentle spice aromas. Soft tannins and silky balance that smooths blends. Essential partner to Touriga Nacional in great Port wines (Vintage, LBV, Tawny) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety, the most planted in the Douro, related to Touriga Nacional.
Food and wine pairing with a wine of Porto
wines from the region of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of lomo saltado, gourmet croc-monsieur with comté cheese or tartiflette with 3 cheeses.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Porto
On the nose in the region of Porto often reveals types of flavors of cherry, black cherries or plum and sometimes also flavors of dark chocolate, chocolate or raisin. In the mouth in the region of Porto is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
