Winery Fonseca - Guimaraens Vintage Port

Winery FonsecaGuimaraens Vintage Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Guimaraens Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
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

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, caramel

Wine with earth taste

leather, smoke

Wine with spices taste

licorice, cinnamon

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet, lavender

Wine with vegetal taste

earl grey tea

On the nose the Guimaraens Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, vegetal or cinnamon and sometimes also flavors of dried fig, cheese or fig.

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 chili con carne or aveyron truffle.

Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's Guimaraens Vintage Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
20.5°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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

Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2017
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2015
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2014
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2012
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Guimaraens Vintage Port - 2010
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110

The best vintages of Guimaraens Vintage Port from Winery Fonseca are 1963, 1976, 1977, 1994 and 1970.

Informations about the Winery Fonseca

The winery offers 29 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This winery is part of the Taylor Fladgate.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Fonseca is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 350 of of Portugal wines
In the top 65 of of Porto wines
In the top 200 of natural sweet wines
In the top 7000 wines of the world

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.

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The word of the wine: Carbonic maceration

Fermentation of whole grapes in a carbon dioxide-saturated atmosphere. This type of fermentation produces very aromatic and flattering wines.

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