Winery FonsecaGuimaraens Reserve Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port from the Winery Fonseca
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca in the region of Duriense is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Food and wine pairings with Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port
The Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of beer goulash, simple pancake batter or beloved steaks.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon
Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Guimaraens Reserve Vintage Port from Winery Fonseca are 1964, 0
Informations about the Winery Fonseca
The Winery Fonseca is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
The wine region of Douro is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 1110 estates and châteaux in the of Douro, producing 4307 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Douro 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.
The word of the wine: Servadou iron
A black grape variety from the southwest that produces a wine with spicy tannins and black currant and raspberry aromas. Under the name of Mansois, it is the main grape variety of Marcillac; it is also one of the important varieties of Gaillacois, where it is called Braucol. It is also used in the blends of other South-Western appellations (Fronton, Lavilledieu, Estaing, Madiran). Syn.: braucol, pinenc, mansois.
