Winery Monteiro10 Year Old Port
Natural sweet wine
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the 10 Year Old Port from the Winery Monteiro
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the 10 Year Old Port of Winery Monteiro in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Port
Pairings that work perfectly with 10 Year Old Port
Original food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Port
The 10 Year Old Port of Winery Monteiro matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of baked marrow bones, yoghurt cake or filet mignon with roquefort and port wine.
Details and technical informations about Winery Monteiro's 10 Year Old Port.
Discover the grape variety: Picolit noir
A very old grape variety, which almost disappeared, cultivated for a very long time in the north-east of Italy, more precisely in the region of Friuli bordering with Aurelia and Slovenia. It can be found in Italy, but also in Spain, ... in France it is completely unknown. Note that it is not related to the white picolit.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of 10 Year Old Port from Winery Monteiro are 2017, 0
Informations about the Winery Monteiro
The Winery Monteiro is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 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: Noble rot
A fungus called botrytis cinerea that develops during the over-ripening phase, an ally of great sweet white wines, when it concentrates the juice of the berries. It requires the humidity of morning fogs and beautiful sunny days, gives musts very rich in sugar and brings to the wines the famous taste of "roasted".
