The Winery Fonseca of Porto of Duriense

Winery Fonseca - Vintage Port
The winery offers 29 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This estate is part of the Taylor Fladgate.
It is ranked in the top 18 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Fonseca is one of the world's great estates. It offers 29 wines for sale in of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fonseca wines

Looking for the best Winery Fonseca wines in Porto among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fonseca wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Fonseca wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Fonseca

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Fonseca

How Winery Fonseca wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef goulash, seafood, chorizo and chicken paella from patou or asparagus with ham au gratin.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Fonseca

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Fonseca. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, smoke or dried apricot and sometimes also flavors of hazelnut, nutty or almonds. In the mouth the natural sweet wine of Winery Fonseca. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Fonseca

  • 1963With an average score of 4.68/5
  • 1960With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1976With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1966With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1970With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1977With an average score of 4.58/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Fonseca.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinto Cao
  • Touriga Francesa

Discovering 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 .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fonseca

Planning a wine route in the of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Fonseca.

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

News about Winery Fonseca and wines from the region

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Known to wine enthusiasts for one of the world’s best known annual wine fairs, Vinitaly, Verona is about to host a poli-functional wine museum and visitor centre that promises to rival similar enterprises in Bordeaux and Porto. The Museo del Vino (MuVin) project was officially unveiled at Vinitaly earlier this month, with the endorsement of Italian tourism minister Massimo Garavaglia, Roberta Garibaldi of Italy’s national tourism agency, and Prof Diego Begalli, director of the department of busi ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

The word of the wine: Apogee

This period varies greatly depending on the type of wine and the vintage, and corresponds to the optimum quality of a wine. After the peak comes the decline.

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