The Winery Cálem of Porto of Duriense

Winery Cálem - Velhotes Tawny Porto
The winery offers 57 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Sogevinus.
It is ranked in the top 45 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Cálem is one of the world's great estates. It offers 57 wines for sale in of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cálem wines

Looking for the best Winery Cálem wines in Porto among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cálem wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Cálem wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Cálem

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Cálem

How Winery Cálem wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or sweet desserts such as recipes of steak tartare, comté cheese cake-flan or apple pie.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Cálem

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Cálem. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, citrus or coffee and sometimes also flavors of apricot, cinnamon or tree fruit. In the mouth the natural sweet wine of Winery Cálem. is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Cálem

  • 1982With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1977With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1961With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1987With an average score of 4.46/5
  • 1991With an average score of 4.34/5
  • 1978With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Cálem.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Tinto Cao
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Malvasia Fina

Discovering 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 top white wines of Winery Cálem

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cálem

How Winery Cálem wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of monkfish tail with coconut milk and curry, sardinade or back of cod with basquaise sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Cálem

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cálem. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Cálem

  • 2018With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Cálem.

  • Gouveio
  • Malvasia Fina

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top red wines of Winery Cálem

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cálem

How Winery Cálem wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, pasta gratin or milk-fed lamb sautéed with saffron and lemon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Cálem

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cálem. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Cálem

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.56/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.15/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.03/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.02/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Cálem.

  • Touriga Franca
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Tinta Roriz

The word of the wine: Flint (smell of)

Mineral odour reminiscent of flint and flint heated during sharpening.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cálem

Planning a wine route in the of Porto? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Cálem.

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.

News about Winery Cálem and wines from the region

Verona to be home to Italy’s largest wine museum and visitor centre

Known to wine enthusiasts for one of the world’s best known annual wine fairs, Vinitaly, Verona is about to host a poli-functional wine museum and visitor centre that promises to rival similar enterprises in Bordeaux and Porto. The Museo del Vino (MuVin) project was officially unveiled at Vinitaly earlier this month, with the endorsement of Italian tourism minister Massimo Garavaglia, Roberta Garibaldi of Italy’s national tourism agency, and Prof Diego Begalli, director of the department of busi ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

The word of the wine: Flint (smell of)

Mineral odour reminiscent of flint and flint heated during sharpening.

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