Winery Dow's - Late Bottled Vintage Port

Winery Dow'sLate Bottled Vintage 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 Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Dow's 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

chocolate, vanilla

Wine with earth taste

honey, leather

Wine with spices taste

licorice, pepper

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet

On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Dow's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, honey or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of microbio, earth or non oak.

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 Dow's matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of steak tartare or ramen burger.

Details and technical informations about Winery Dow's'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: 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

Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2018
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2016
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2012
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2009
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110

The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Dow's are 1970, 1977, 1993, 1975 and 1983.

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 1500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 200 of of Porto wines
In the top 550 of natural sweet wines
In the top 30000 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: Consistency

In tasting, it is the equivalent of chewing (the chewiness of a tannic red wine is also mentioned). We then speak of firmness, fluidity, softness, hardness, and why not the crunchiness of an early wine by reference to the grape.

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