Winery OffleyPorto Reserva (Barão de Forrester)
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
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 Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester) from the Winery Offley
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester) of Winery Offley in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester) of Winery Offley in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester)
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester)
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester)
The Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester) of Winery Offley matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of hungarian goulash, chocolate mug cake or endive, apple, walnut and roquefort salad.
Details and technical informations about Winery Offley's Porto Reserva (Barão de Forrester).
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 Reserva (Barão de Forrester) from Winery Offley are 2017, 2003, 2005, 0 and 2008.
Informations about the Winery Offley
The Winery Offley is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 27 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: PGI
Protected geographical indication. Equivalent to vin de pays in European regulations.
