Winery OffleyPorto Reserve Cachucha White
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Reserve Cachucha White of Winery Offley in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
Details and technical informations about Winery Offley's Porto Reserve Cachucha White.
Discover the grape variety: Băbească neagră
Light reds with a pale ruby robe, soft tannins and a lively, airy palate, with signature aromas of fresh red fruits (cherry, strawberry, raspberry) and floral notes. Accessible thirst-quenching profile. Star of the AOC Băbească de Nicorești in Romanian Moldova; one of the oldest Romanian varieties; a typical expression of the Moldavian hillsides. Indigenous black variety from Romanian Moldova, grown mainly in Nicorești.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Reserve Cachucha White from Winery Offley are 2017, 1997, 2008, 0 and 1998.
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: Rafle (taste of)
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
