Winery FerreiraLate Bottled Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Ferreira in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, minerality or red fruit.
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 Ferreira matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of german recipe for marinated meat: sauerbraten or comté cheese cake-flan.
Details and technical informations about Winery Ferreira's Late Bottled Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão
Structured, elegant reds with a deep ruby robe, fine tannins and fresh acidity, featuring aromas of red fruits, black cherry, spices, dried flowers and balsamic notes. Very good ageing and oxidative maturation capacity. An essential component of great vintage Porto (one of the five classic recommended grapes) and dry reds of Douro DOC. Very late-ripening, low-yield native Portuguese grape, saved from near-disappearance.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Ferreira are 1987, 2006, 1985, 1977 and 1999.
Informations about the Winery Ferreira
The Winery Ferreira is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 30 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: Drawing (liqueur de)
In champagne and sparkling wines of traditional method, addition to the wine, at the time of bottling (tirage) of sugars and yeasts dissolved in wine. These components will provoke the second fermentation in the bottle leading to the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles.
