Winery Fonseca20 Year Old Tawny Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinto cão and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The 20 Year Old Tawny Port of the Winery Fonseca is in the top 50 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the 20 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Fonseca in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, tree fruit or hazelnut and sometimes also flavors of dried apricot, walnut or non oak.
Food and wine pairings with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
Pairings that work perfectly with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
Original food and wine pairings with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
The 20 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Fonseca matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of kafta bil saniyeh (lebanese dish) or savoy soup.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's 20 Year Old Tawny Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão
- Origin : Most certainly from the north of Portugal, it is a very old grape variety, present for a very long time in the Douro Valley where it is very often associated with other grape varieties to produce the famous Port. It can also be found in the United States (California, etc.), Australia, Spain, Mexico, etc.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of 20 Year Old Tawny Port from Winery Fonseca are 1995, 2016, 2011, 2017 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Fonseca
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.
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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