Winery Alves de Sousa - Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port

Winery Alves de SousaCaldas Ruby Special Reserve Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port of Winery Alves de Sousa is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinto cão and the Touriga franca.
This wine generally goes well with beef

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port of Winery Alves de Sousa in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port

Original food and wine pairings with Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port

The Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port of Winery Alves de Sousa matches generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of chinese noodles with beef.

Details and technical informations about Winery Alves de Sousa's Caldas Ruby Special Reserve Port.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
19.5°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão

- Origin : Most certainly from the north of Portugal, it is a very old grape variety, present for a very long time in the Douro Valley where it is very often associated with other grape varieties to produce the famous Port. It can also be found in the United States (California, etc.), Australia, Spain, Mexico, etc.

Informations about the Winery Alves de Sousa

The winery offers 70 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is in the top 10 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Alves de Sousa is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 64 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 600 of of Portugal wines
In the top 250 of of Porto wines
In the top 250 of natural sweet wines
In the top 15000 wines of the world

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 .


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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