The best wines of Porto

Discover the best wines of Porto of Duriense as well as the best winemakers of Porto and estates of Porto to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Porto and the best vintages to taste in this region.

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Top wines of Porto by region

Looking for a good wine of Porto of Duriense among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Porto. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Porto with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Porto

See the top 100 best red wines of Porto

Want to buy a red wine of Porto cheap or sell a red wine of Porto at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Porto

Red wines from the region of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue bourguignonne and accompanying sauces, lamb chops with honey and spices or rabbit with chorizo.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Porto

On the nose the red wine of the region of Porto. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or dried fruit. In the mouth the red wine of the region of Porto. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in red wine of Porto

  • 2010With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Porto

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Merlot
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Shiraz/Syrah

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Porto

A wine route planned in the region of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best red wine of Porto.

Discovering the wine region of Porto

The wine region of Porto is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 312 estates and châteaux in the of Porto, producing 2132 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Great sparkling wines of Porto

See the top 100 best sparkling wines of Porto

Want to buy a sparkling wine of Porto cheap or sell a sparkling wine of Porto at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Porto

Sparkling wines from the region of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in sparkling wine of Porto

  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

The best wineries and winemakers for sparkling wine of Porto

A wine route planned in the region of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sparkling wine of Porto.

The word of the wine: Mansois

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Great sweet wines of Porto

See the top 100 best sweet wines of Porto

Want to buy a sweet wine of Porto cheap or sell a sweet wine of Porto at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Porto

Sweet wines from the region of Porto go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in sweet wine of Porto

  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5

The best wineries and winemakers for sweet wine of Porto

A wine route planned in the region of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sweet wine of Porto.

The word of the wine: BSA

Brut sans année, is said of non-vintage champagnes. It is the technical name of the first price champagne made from wines of different years. They are most often called Tradition, Carte blanche, Réserve. To be drunk quickly, rather as an aperitif.

Great natural sweet wines of Porto

See the top 100 best natural sweet wines of Porto

Want to buy a natural-sweet wine of Porto cheap or sell a natural-sweet wine of Porto at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a natural-sweet wine of Porto

Natural sweet 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 korean bibimbap, vegetarian lentil burger or king's cake with frangipane.

Organoleptic analysis of natural-sweet wine of Porto

On the nose the natural sweet wine of the region of Porto. often reveals types of flavors of caramel, clove or balsamic and sometimes also flavors of banana, marzipan or dried apricot. In the mouth the natural sweet wine of the region of Porto. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in natural-sweet wine of Porto

  • 1863With an average score of 5.00/5
  • 1978With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1972With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1971With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1969With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.80/5

The most used grape varieties in natural-sweet wine of Porto

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinto Cao
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinta Amarela

The best wineries and winemakers for natural-sweet wine of Porto

A wine route planned in the region of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best natural-sweet wine of Porto.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News from the vineyard of Porto

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Azores to get own regional vine and wine institute

The creation of an Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho dos Açores (IVVA), with headquarters in the island of Pico, follows the remarkable qualitative growth that the Archipelago of the Azores’ wine industry has been experiencing over the past decade. ‘People are excited about growing fruit and making wine here. There are about 300 growers producing their own fruit and a lot of small “garage” producers are starting. Some of them have worked and trained with us and are now making very interesting wines, ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

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