Winery FonsecaVintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Malbec, the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or mature and hard cheese.
The Vintage Port of the Winery Fonseca is in the top 70 of wines of Portugal and in the top 10 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the 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, earthy or blackberry.
Food and wine pairings with Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Vintage Port
The Vintage Port of Winery Fonseca matches generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Details and technical informations about Winery Fonseca's Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Malbec
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
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 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: Virile
Said of a robust, full-bodied wine and, in general, of wines reputed to be powerful in reference to masculine virility.
