Winery CroftPort Finest Reserve Purple Velvet
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet from the Winery Croft
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet of Winery Croft in the region of Duriense is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet of Winery Croft in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet
Pairings that work perfectly with Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet
Original food and wine pairings with Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet
The Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet of Winery Croft matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of tunisian molokheya, chocolate fondant or rabbit with roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Croft's Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet.
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
The best vintages of Port Finest Reserve Purple Velvet from Winery Croft are 0
Informations about the Winery Croft
The Winery Croft is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 33 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: Old vines
There are no specific regulations governing the term "vieilles vignes". After 20 to 25 years, the yields stabilize and tend to decrease, the vines are deeply rooted, and the grapes that come from them give richer, more concentrated, more sappy wines, expressing with more nuance the characteristics of their terroir. It is possible to find plots of vines that claim to be a century old.
