Winery Vista Alegre20 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 20 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Vista Alegre in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices.
Food and wine pairings with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
Pairings that work perfectly with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
Original food and wine pairings with 20 Year Old Tawny Port
The 20 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 braised beef with carrots or goat cheese, walnut and raisin cake.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vista Alegre's 20 Year Old Tawny Port.
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 20 Year Old Tawny Port from Winery Vista Alegre are 2016, 2011, 0, 2014
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: Water stress
Lack of water. Water stress blocks the vegetative cycle of the vine, which uses all available resources to maintain the integrity of the plant, thus blocking the ripening process of the grapes.
