Winery Dow's - Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port

Winery Dow'sMaster Blend Late 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 Master Blend 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.
The Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port of the Winery Dow's is in the top 20 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Dow's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port

Original food and wine pairings with Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port

The Master Blend 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 greek moussaka or endive salad with walnuts, comté cheese and bacon.

Details and technical informations about Winery Dow's's Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Aromatic and refined reds with an elegant structure, featuring raspberry, blackberry, rose, lavender, cistus and gentle spice aromas. Soft tannins and silky balance that smooths blends. Essential partner to Touriga Nacional in great Port wines (Vintage, LBV, Tawny) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety, the most planted in the Douro, related to Touriga Nacional.

Last vintages of this wine

Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2009
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2008
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2007
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 2004
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port - 1994
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5

The best vintages of Master Blend Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Dow's are 1983, 1994, 1985, 2011 and 2013.

Informations about the Winery Dow's

The winery offers 59 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This winery is part of the Symington Family Estates.
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 Dow's is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 38 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 150 of of Portugal wines
In the top 30 of of Porto wines
In the top 65 of natural sweet wines
In the top 3000 wines of the world

The wine region of Porto

One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.


The wine region of Duriense

Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.

The word of the wine: Smoked white

See sauvignon.

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