Winery FonsecaGuimaraens Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Guimaraens Vintage Port of the Winery Fonseca is in the top 60 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Guimaraens Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, cream or cherry and sometimes also flavors of oaky, smoke or apples.
Food and wine pairings with Guimaraens Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Guimaraens Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Guimaraens Vintage Port
The Guimaraens Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of homemade beef stew or smoked salmon and comté pie.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's Guimaraens Vintage Port.
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
The best vintages of Guimaraens Vintage Port from Winery Fonseca are 1963, 1994, 1977, 1976 and 1970.
Informations about the Winery Fonseca
The Winery Fonseca is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The word of the wine: Frank
Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.
