Winery NiepoortPorto Crusted
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca 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 Porto Crusted of Winery Niepoort in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, red fruit or coffee.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Crusted
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Crusted
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Crusted
The Porto Crusted of Winery Niepoort matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta al forno (baked pasta) or scrambled eggs with bacon on toast.
Details and technical informations about Winery Niepoort's Porto Crusted.
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 Porto Crusted from Winery Niepoort are 2007, 2014, 2012, 2011
Informations about the Winery Niepoort
The Winery Niepoort is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 257 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: Foaming
Name given to the second alcoholic fermentation that sparkling wines undergo. It gives rise to a release of carbon dioxide in the bottle.
