Winery Fonseca - Tawny Port

Winery FonsecaTawny Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Tawny 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 franca.
This wine generally goes well with beef

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel, chocolate

Wine with earth taste

honey, leather

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon, licorice

Wine with microbio taste

cheese

On the nose the Tawny Port of Winery Fonseca in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, vegetal or fig and sometimes also flavors of dark fruit, nutty or honey.

Food and wine pairings with Tawny Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Tawny Port

Original food and wine pairings with Tawny Port

The Tawny Port of Winery Fonseca matches generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of adapted vietnamese fondue.

Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's Tawny Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
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

Tawny Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.51110.50
Tawny Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Tawny Port - 2012
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Tawny Port - 2011
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Tawny Port - 2010
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Tawny Port - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.51110.50

The best vintages of Tawny Port from Winery Fonseca are 2013, 2012, 2010, 2011 and 2015.

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 15 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 great 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 4500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 450 of of Porto wines
In the top 1500 of natural sweet wines
In the top 95000 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: Arching

A stage in the vegetative cycle of the vine that occurs after the leaves have fallen and is characterized by the drying out of the soft shoots, which are transformed into hard shoots by lignification.

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