Winery AndresenSpecial Selection Colheita Porto
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Special Selection Colheita Porto of Winery Andresen in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, tobacco or vanilla.
Food and wine pairings with Special Selection Colheita Porto
Pairings that work perfectly with Special Selection Colheita Porto
Original food and wine pairings with Special Selection Colheita Porto
The Special Selection Colheita Porto of Winery Andresen matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tongue in hot sauce or jack be little (mini pumpkin) egg casserole.
Details and technical informations about Winery Andresen's Special Selection Colheita Porto.
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 Special Selection Colheita Porto from Winery Andresen are 1910, 1975, 1968, 2019 and 2017.
Informations about the Winery Andresen
The Winery Andresen is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 37 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: Animal
Generic smell of aromatic families reminiscent of fur, game, musk, civet, amber and sometimes unpleasant smells of wet hair. The old books on tasting give as an example of animal aroma the belly of hare.
