Winery Dow'sVintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 5 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca, the Touriga nacional and the Merlot.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or mature and hard cheese.
The Vintage Port of the Winery Dow's is in the top 20 of wines of Porto.
Food and wine pairings with Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Vintage Port
The Vintage Port of Winery Dow's matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of aveyron truffle or gnocchi with bacon and roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Dow's's Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca
Intensely coloured, warm reds, sun-drenched with generous alcohol, with aromas of red and black candied fruits, plum, gentle spices and cocoa notes. Ripe tannins and a broad palate. Traditional partner of touriga nacional and touriga franca in the blends of great Port wines (especially Tawny and Ruby) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vintage Port from Winery Dow's are 2007, 2013, 2011, 1970 and 1963.
Informations about the Winery Dow's
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.
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: Musky
Said of an odor reminiscent of musk.
