Winery Vista Alegre10 Year Old Tawny Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Touriga Nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the 10 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Vista Alegre in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, citrus fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Tawny Port
Pairings that work perfectly with 10 Year Old Tawny Port
Original food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Tawny Port
The 10 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Vista Alegre matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of brazilian feijoada or cheese fondue.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vista Alegre's 10 Year Old Tawny Port.
Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional
Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of 10 Year Old Tawny Port from Winery Vista Alegre are 2011, 2008, 2016, 2014 and 2013.
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: Pigeage
Operation consisting of a vertical treading to push the cap of marc into the wine, which promotes extraction. Pigeage can be carried out mechanically with jacks that plunge into the vat. Traditionally, it is the men who go down into the vats and push the cap by trampling it.
