Winery Cálem - Quinta da Foz Vintage Port

Winery CálemQuinta da Foz Vintage Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Quinta da Foz Vintage Port 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.
The Quinta da Foz Vintage Port of the Winery Cálem is in the top 80 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

oak, cigar

Wine with earth taste

leather

Wine with microbio taste

cheese

On the nose the Quinta da Foz Vintage Port of Winery Cálem in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cheese, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, oak.

Food and wine pairings with Quinta da Foz Vintage Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Quinta da Foz Vintage Port

Original food and wine pairings with Quinta da Foz Vintage Port

The Quinta da Foz Vintage Port of Winery Cálem matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of picadillo or vincent's tuna mascarpone pizza.

Details and technical informations about Winery Cálem's Quinta da Foz Vintage Port.

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

Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 2002
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1999
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1998
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1997
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1996
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1995
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Quinta da Foz Vintage Port - 1992
In the top 80 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110

The best vintages of Quinta da Foz Vintage Port from Winery Cálem are 1982, 1987, 1984, 1980 and 1992.

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 3 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 greatest 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 500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 85 of of Porto wines
In the top 250 of natural sweet wines
In the top 9500 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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