The Winery Dow's of Porto of Duriense

Winery Dow's - Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port
The winery offers 55 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This estate is part of the Symington Family Estates.
It is ranked in the top 15 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Dow's is one of the world's great estates. It offers 55 wines for sale in of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Dow's wines

Looking for the best Winery Dow's wines in Porto among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Dow's wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Dow's wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Dow's

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Dow's

How Winery Dow's wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or sweet desserts such as recipes of bernard's potée, polenta with cheese or cheese cake (white cheese cake) inratable.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Dow's

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Dow's. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cassis or baking spice and sometimes also flavors of tar, black plum or cedar. In the mouth the natural sweet wine of Winery Dow's. is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Dow's

  • 1984With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1963With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1974With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1978With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1993With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1945With an average score of 4.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Dow's.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinto Cao
  • Touriga Francesa

Discovering 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 top red wines of Winery Dow's

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Dow's

How Winery Dow's wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of romazava (madagascar), capellini with vegetables or lamb curl.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Dow's

On the nose the red wine of Winery Dow's. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Dow's. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Dow's

  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Dow's.

  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Francisca
  • Pinot Noir

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Dow's

Planning a wine route in the of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Dow's.

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.

News about Winery Dow's and wines from the region

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Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

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The word of the wine: Trader-Handler

Champagne term for a merchant who buys grapes to make a Champagne wine himself.

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