Winery Croft - Late Bottled Vintage Port

Winery CroftLate Bottled Vintage Port

3.9
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Croft is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, 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

Wine with spices taste

eucalyptus

On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Croft in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or citrus fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Late Bottled Vintage Port

Original food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port

The Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Croft matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels or ham and port cakes.

Details and technical informations about Winery Croft's Late Bottled Vintage Port.

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

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca

Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.

Last vintages of this wine

Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2012
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2010
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2009
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.311100
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2007
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50

The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Croft are 1966, 1970, 1977, 1975 and 1998.

Informations about the Winery Croft

The winery offers 42 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This winery is part of the Taylor Fladgate.
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 Croft is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 33 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 2000 of of Portugal wines
In the top 250 of of Porto wines
In the top 700 of natural sweet wines
In the top 40000 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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The word of the wine: Tressallier

White grape variety from the Allier region, identical to the Sacy variety grown in Burgundy. Rarely vinified on its own, it is used in the blending of Saint-Pourçain white wines, associated with chardonnay, the main grape variety of the appellation. Syn.: sacy.

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