Winery Favaios Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel
White wine
In the mouth this white wine is a with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese and sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel from the Winery Favaios
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Dry
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In the mouth the Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel of Winery Favaios in the region of Duriense is a with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Food and wine pairings with Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel
Pairings that work perfectly with Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel
Original food and wine pairings with Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel
The Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel of Winery Favaios matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or pie with bacon, roquefort cheese and gruyère.
Details and technical informations about Winery Favaios's Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel.
Discover the grape variety: Crescent
A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Fino Colheita Velho Moscatel from Winery Favaios are 1964
Informations about the Winery Favaios
The Winery Favaios is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 38 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
The wine region of Douro is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 1110 estates and châteaux in the of Douro, producing 4307 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Douro go well with generally quite well with dishes .
The wine region of Duriense
Duriense is a Portuguese wine region covering the same area as the Douro DOC and the Port wine region. In difference from Douro DOC, Duriense VR is a designation at the lower Vinho Regional (VR) level, which corresponds to table wines with a geographical indication under European Union wine regulations, similar to a French vin de pays region. Thus, it is the simpler or less typical wines of the Douro region that are sold using a Duriense VR label. Before the creation of a separate Duriense VR, the Douro vineyards were Part of the former Transmontano/tras-os-montes">Trás-os-Montes VR, which is now called Transmontano VR and no longer includes the Douro vineyards.
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The word of the wine: Dry
Champagne with between 17 and 35 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).
