Winery MessiasPorto Vintage
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Porto Vintage of the Winery Messias is in the top 80 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Vintage of Winery Messias in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of plum, caramel or raisin and sometimes also flavors of toffee, cheese or fig.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Vintage
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Vintage
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Vintage
The Porto Vintage of Winery Messias matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of boles de picolat (catalan meatballs) or parmesan cream brûlée.
Details and technical informations about Winery Messias's Porto Vintage.
Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca
Intensely coloured, warm reds, sun-drenched with generous alcohol, with aromas of red and black candied fruits, plum, gentle spices and cocoa notes. Ripe tannins and a broad palate. Traditional partner of touriga nacional and touriga franca in the blends of great Port wines (especially Tawny and Ruby) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Vintage from Winery Messias are 1965, 1982, 1966, 1977 and 2011.
Informations about the Winery Messias
The Winery Messias is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 95 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Porto
One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: Slim
A thin wine, lacking flesh and body.
