Winery Barão de VilarPorto Colheita White
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Barão de Vilar's Porto Colheita White.
Discover the grape variety: Carricante
Lively, mineral whites with a pale robe, tense palate and cutting acidity. Aromas of citrus (lemon, grapefruit), green apple, white flowers, aromatic herbs and characteristic smoky volcanic saline notes. Fine ageing potential, developing petrol notes with age. Star of Etna Bianco DOC and Etna Bianco Superiore DOC on the eastern slopes of the Sicilian volcano (up to 1,000 m altitude). Ancient native Sicilian variety.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Colheita White from Winery Barão de Vilar are 1989, 0, 2007
Informations about the Winery Barão de Vilar
The Winery Barão de Vilar is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 48 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: Phenolic ripeness
A distinction is made between the ripeness of sugars and acids and the ripeness of tannins and other compounds such as anthocyanins and tannins, which will bring structure and colour. Grapes can be measured at 13° potential without having reached this phenolic maturity. Vinified at this stage, they will give hard, astringent wines, without charm.
