Winery Alves de SousaQuinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinto cão and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White of Winery Alves de Sousa in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White
Pairings that work perfectly with Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White
Original food and wine pairings with Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White
The Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White of Winery Alves de Sousa matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pot roast or macaroni and cheese gratin.
Details and technical informations about Winery Alves de Sousa's Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Quinta da Gaivosa 10 Anos Old Porto White from Winery Alves de Sousa are 2003
Informations about the Winery Alves de Sousa
The Winery Alves de Sousa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 64 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The word of the wine: White winemaking
White wines are obtained by fermentation of the juice after pressing. A pre-fermentation maceration is sometimes practiced to extract the aromatic substances from the skins. White wines are normally made from white grapes, but can also be made from red grapes (blanc de noirs). The grapes are then pressed as soon as they arrive at the vat house without maceration in order to prevent the colouring matter contained in the skins from "staining" the wine.
