Top 100 wines of Porto - Page 4
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: Malvasia Fina
Structured, aromatic dry whites with a pale golden robe, an ample palate and moderate acidity, showing signature aromas of yellow fruits (pear, peach, apricot), white flowers (acacia), almond and schist mineral notes. Fine ageing potential. A traditional component of Douro DOC and Dão DOC whites and white Port. A Portuguese variety of the Malvasia family, widely grown in north-eastern Portugal.
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 sweet desserts such as recipes of beef tournedos with boursin, polenta with cheese or king's cake with frangipane.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Porto
On the nose in the region of Porto often reveals types of flavors of black currant, raisin or fig and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth in the region of Porto is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
