Caves VelhasCabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé
Pink wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé
Pairings that work perfectly with Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé
Original food and wine pairings with Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé
The Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé of Caves Velhas matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef bourguignon with cookéo, couscous chicken and merguez or lamb tagine with honey and onions.
Details and technical informations about Caves Velhas's Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé.
Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional
Deep, concentrated reds with a near-black robe, firm but polished tannins, showing aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, violet, bergamot, liquorice, black pepper and characteristic floral notes. Pillar of great vintage Ports (Quinta do Noval, Taylor's) and signature of modern dry Douro DOC and Dão DOC. Also exported to Australia and California. Portugal's most noble variety.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cabeça de Toiro Reserva Rosé from Caves Velhas are 0, 2019
Informations about the Caves Velhas
The Caves Velhas is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 85 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
Cradle of Port: opulent fortified wine with notes of candied black fruit, cocoa, fig, walnut and spice, from young fruity Ruby to oxidative amber Tawny, plus age-worthy LBV and Vintage of exceptional cellaring. Also great dry Douro DOC reds, structured and deep (violet, black-fruited Touriga Nacional, elegant Touriga Franca, spicy Tinta Roriz). A few fresh Douro whites. Terraced vineyards (~40,000 ha) UNESCO on schist.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: Nouaison
Phase of the vegetative cycle of the vine following flowering and corresponding to the formation of the grape berry.
