Winery Quarles Harris - 10 Year Old Tawny Porto

Winery Quarles Harris10 Year Old Tawny Porto

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The 10 Year Old Tawny Porto of Winery Quarles Harris is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, 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 10 Year Old Tawny Porto of Winery Quarles Harris in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or dried fruit.

Food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Tawny Porto

Pairings that work perfectly with 10 Year Old Tawny Porto

Original food and wine pairings with 10 Year Old Tawny Porto

The 10 Year Old Tawny Porto of Winery Quarles Harris matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of chicken, beef and lamb couscous (morocco) or magic wrap with steak and cheese.

Details and technical informations about Winery Quarles Harris's 10 Year Old Tawny Porto.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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

10 Year Old Tawny Porto - 2016
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
10 Year Old Tawny Porto - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50

The best vintages of 10 Year Old Tawny Porto from Winery Quarles Harris are 2016, 2008

Informations about the Winery Quarles Harris

The winery offers 26 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Quarles Harris is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 4500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 1500 of of Porto wines
In the top 1500 of natural sweet wines
In the top 95000 wines of the world

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.

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