Winery Dow's - Vintage Port

Winery Dow'sVintage Port

4.5
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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 world.
The Vintage 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 Vintage Port of the Winery Dow's is in the top 60 of wines of Portugal and in the top 10 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, caramel

Wine with earth taste

leather, smoke

Wine with spices taste

licorice, cinnamon

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with vegetal taste

hay

Wine with floral taste

violet, lavender

On the nose the Vintage Port of Winery Dow's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of iron, hazelnut or microbio and sometimes also flavors of earth, non oak or marzipan.

Details and technical informations about Winery Dow's's Vintage 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

Vintage Port - 2017
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Vintage Port - 2016
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5
Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Vintage Port - 2009
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Vintage Port - 2007
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5
Vintage Port - 2006
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5

The best vintages of Vintage Port from Winery Dow's are 2013, 1963, 2007, 2006 and 1945.

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 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 39 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 70 of of Portugal wines
In the top 20 of of Porto wines
In the top 35 of natural sweet wines
In the top 1500 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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