Winery Delaforce - Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port

Winery DelaforceCurious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny 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 Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port of Winery Delaforce 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

On the nose the Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port of Winery Delaforce in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, dried fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port

Original food and wine pairings with Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port

The Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port of Winery Delaforce matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of enchiladas franchouillards or parmesan cream brûlée.

Details and technical informations about Winery Delaforce's Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny 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

Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110

The best vintages of Curious & Ancient 20 Years Old Tawny Port from Winery Delaforce are 2015

Informations about the Winery Delaforce

The winery offers 40 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This winery is part of the Real Companhia Velha.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Delaforce is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 31 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 3000 of of Portugal wines
In the top 300 of of Porto wines
In the top 850 of natural sweet wines
In the top 55000 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: Phylloxera

Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.

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