Winery CálemPorto Tawny 10 Years Old
Natural sweet wine
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 Tawny 10 Years Old of Winery Cálem in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of smoke, strawberries or vanilla.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Tawny 10 Years Old
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Tawny 10 Years Old
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Tawny 10 Years Old
The Porto Tawny 10 Years Old of Winery Cálem matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil or epoisses fondue (cheese).
Details and technical informations about Winery Cálem's Porto Tawny 10 Years Old.
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
The best vintages of Porto Tawny 10 Years Old from Winery Cálem are 2016, 2015, 2017, 2014 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Cálem
The Winery Cálem is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 46 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: Cryo-extraction
This technique was very popular at the end of the 80's in Sauternes, a little less so now. The grapes are frozen before pressing, and the water transformed into ice remains in the marc, only the sugar flows out. As with the concentrators, the "cryo" can also increase bad taste and greenness.
