Winery Vista AlegreFine Tawny Porto
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 Fine Tawny Porto of Winery Vista Alegre in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of vanilla, chocolate or caramel and sometimes also flavors of raisin, non oak or earth.
Food and wine pairings with Fine Tawny Porto
Pairings that work perfectly with Fine Tawny Porto
Original food and wine pairings with Fine Tawny Porto
The Fine Tawny Porto of Winery Vista Alegre matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of meat and goat pie or stuffed pumpkin.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vista Alegre's Fine Tawny Porto.
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 Fine Tawny Porto from Winery Vista Alegre are 2008, 2011, 2016
Informations about the Winery Vista Alegre
The Winery Vista Alegre is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 36 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: Clarity
The state of translucency of a wine. A clear wine is not cloudy (which is a defect).
