Winery Dow's - Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

Winery Dow'sColheita Single Harvest 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 Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port of Winery Dow's 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.
The Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port of the Winery Dow's is in the top 80 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel, toffee

Wine with microbio taste

cheese

Wine with earth taste

honey, smoke

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon, licorice

On the nose the Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port of Winery Dow's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, vegetal or hazelnut and sometimes also flavors of dried apricot, walnut or marzipan.

Food and wine pairings with Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

Original food and wine pairings with Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

The Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port of Winery Dow's matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of roasted fillet of beef with parsley or cheese clafoutis.

Details and technical informations about Winery Dow's's Colheita Single Harvest Tawny 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

Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 2014
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 2009
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 2007
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 2002
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 1999
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 1996
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port - 1992
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110

The best vintages of Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port from Winery Dow's are 1974, 1982, 1978, 1969 and 1986.

Informations about the Winery Dow's

The winery offers 55 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This winery is part of the Symington Family Estates.
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 Dow's is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 85 of of Porto wines
In the top 250 of natural sweet wines
In the top 9500 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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