Top 100 wines of Porto - Page 3
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: Tinta Cão
Structured and elegant reds with a deep ruby colour, firm tannins and dense palate, with signature aromas of red fruit (cherry, raspberry), plum, spices, flowers (violet) and balsamic notes. Very late-ripening and low-yielding, with magnificent ageing potential. An essential component of great vintage Ports and age-worthy Douro DOC, one of the five classic Port varieties. An indigenous Portuguese black variety from the Douro with a strong aromatic identity.
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 sweet and sour turkish dumpling soup (eksili köfte), stuffed pumpkin or pizza roquefort.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Porto
On the nose in the region of Porto often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, red fruit or coffee. In the mouth in the region of Porto is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
