Winery Porto Cruz - Tawny Port

Winery Porto CruzTawny Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Tawny Port of Winery Porto Cruz is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel, oak

Wine with earth taste

smoke, honey

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, oil

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon, licorice

On the nose the Tawny Port of Winery Porto Cruz in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, fig or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or spices.

Details and technical informations about Winery Porto Cruz's Tawny Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
19°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca

Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.

Last vintages of this wine

Tawny Port - 2017
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Tawny Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Tawny Port - 2014
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Tawny Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.51110.50
Tawny Port - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.411100
Tawny Port - 2005
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Tawny Port - 2001
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110

The best vintages of Tawny Port from Winery Porto Cruz are 2017, 2001, 1887, 2015 and 1972.

Informations about the Winery Porto Cruz

The winery offers 29 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Porto Cruz is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 29 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 4500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 450 of of Porto wines
In the top 1500 of natural sweet wines
In the top 95000 wines of the world

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.

News related to this wine

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The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. The vineyard lies on an intensely fractured area. Several characteristic zones can be distinguished, we can say that each Climat has its own personality. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021 ...

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The word of the wine: Second wine

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