Winery FafideReserve Ruby Port
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The Reserve Ruby Port of the Winery Fafide is in the top 0 of wines of Douro.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fafide's Reserve Ruby Port.
Discover the grape variety: Muscadine
Sweet and liqueur wines with a highly distinctive foxy, musky character, amber to golden colour, lush palate, showing powerful signature aromas of wild muscat (foxy signature), exotic fruits, flowers and earthy notes. Distinctly southern American identity. Grown in the south-eastern United States (Carolinas, Florida), resistant to phylloxera and disease, used in modern hybridisation programmes. Family of American varieties of the Vitis rotundifolia species.
Informations about the Winery Fafide
The Winery Fafide is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
Cradle of Port: opulent fortified wine with notes of candied black fruit, cocoa, fig, walnut and spice, from young fruity Ruby to oxidative amber Tawny, plus age-worthy LBV and Vintage of exceptional cellaring. Also great dry Douro DOC reds, structured and deep (violet, black-fruited Touriga Nacional, elegant Touriga Franca, spicy Tinta Roriz). A few fresh Douro whites. Terraced vineyards (~40,000 ha) UNESCO on schist.
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: Nose
In tasting, this is the second phase, which consists of identifying the wine's aromas and possibly its defects.
