Winery OffleyPorto Ruby (Barão de Forrester)
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinto cão and the Touriga franca.
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester) of Winery Offley in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, red fruit or strawberries.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester)
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester)
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester)
The Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester) of Winery Offley matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of traditional hungarian goulash, lamb parmentine with eggplant and spices or pho soup.
Details and technical informations about Winery Offley's Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester).
Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão
Structured, elegant reds with a deep ruby robe, fine tannins and fresh acidity, featuring aromas of red fruits, black cherry, spices, dried flowers and balsamic notes. Very good ageing and oxidative maturation capacity. An essential component of great vintage Porto (one of the five classic recommended grapes) and dry reds of Douro DOC. Very late-ripening, low-yield native Portuguese grape, saved from near-disappearance.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester) from Winery Offley are 2007, 2017, 2015, 2010 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: Anthocyanins
Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.
