Winery C. da Silva - Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port

Winery C. da SilvaDalva Tawny 10 Years Old 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 Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port of Winery C. da Silva is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel, oak

Wine with earth taste

honey

On the nose the Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port of Winery C. da Silva in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of oaky, chocolate or caramel and sometimes also flavors of raisin, prune or orange.

Food and wine pairings with Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port

Original food and wine pairings with Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port

The Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port of Winery C. da Silva matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of roast beef in a foie gras and chanterelle crust or savoy tomme and spinach pie.

Details and technical informations about Winery C. da Silva's Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
20°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

Last vintages of this wine

Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port - 2010
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port - 2004
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50

The best vintages of Dalva Tawny 10 Years Old Port from Winery C. da Silva are 2010, 2004

Informations about the Winery C. da Silva

The winery offers 119 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery C. da Silva is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 81 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 1500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 200 of of Porto wines
In the top 550 of natural sweet wines
In the top 35000 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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