Winery Vista AlegrePorto Late Bottled Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Vista Alegre in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vista Alegre's Porto Late Bottled Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Rèze
Structured, original dry and oxidative whites with a pale golden to amber colour, an ample palate and preserved acidity, showing signature aromas of candied citrus, dried fruits (walnut), honey, white flowers and alpine mineral notes, extended by slow oxidation in high-altitude barrels. Emblematic variety of the Vin du Glacier of Val d'Anniviers, aged in altitude by solera. Indigenous Swiss variety of the Valais, one of the oldest in the country.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Vista Alegre are 2009, 2013, 2011, 1997 and 2004.
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
One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
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: Fade
Wine lacking in sapidity, flat, soft and without character.
