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 wild boar stew in burgundy style, lamb confit with new potatoes or couscous chicken and merguez.
Details and technical informations about Winery Offley's Porto Ruby (Barão de Forrester).
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 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
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: Harvesting and handling
In Champagne, a winegrower who makes his own vintages exclusively from grapes grown on his own property.
