Winery Cálem - Porto Ruby Old Friends

Winery CálemPorto Ruby Old Friends

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Porto Ruby Old Friends of Winery Cálem is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Porto Ruby Old Friends of Winery Cálem in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Cálem's Porto Ruby Old Friends.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
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

Porto Ruby Old Friends - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.311100

The best vintages of Porto Ruby Old Friends from Winery Cálem are 2008

Informations about the Winery Cálem

The winery offers 57 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This winery is part of the Sogevinus.
It is in the top 30 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Cálem is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 46 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 9500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 700 of of Porto wines
In the top 2500 of natural sweet wines
In the top 250000 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.

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The word of the wine: Tertiary aromas

Aromas resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle. The aromas evolve with time, from fresh fruitiness to notes of stewed, candied or dried fruit, to aromas of venison or undergrowth.

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