Winery Alberto De Castro Lança'sRuby Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Alberto De Castro Lança's's Ruby Port.
Discover the grape variety: Groppello gentile
Supple, delicate reds with a pale ruby robe, soft tannins, and an airy palate with fresh acidity, offering signature aromas of cherry, violet, wild strawberry, and delicate floral notes. Also the base of the renowned Chiaretto rosés. The star of Garda Classico DOC and Valtènesi DOC rosés, excelling as a single variety in light, fresh summer reds. A black Lombard variety from the shores of Lake Garda.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Ruby Port from Winery Alberto De Castro Lança's are 2018, 2008
Informations about the Winery Alberto De Castro Lança's
The Winery Alberto De Castro Lança's is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: Pigeage
Operation consisting of a vertical treading to push the cap of marc into the wine, which promotes extraction. Pigeage can be carried out mechanically with jacks that plunge into the vat. Traditionally, it is the men who go down into the vats and push the cap by trampling it.
