Winery Quinta das HerediasVintage Porto
Natural sweet wine
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 Vintage Porto of Winery Quinta das Heredias in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of microbio.
Food and wine pairings with Vintage Porto
Pairings that work perfectly with Vintage Porto
Original food and wine pairings with Vintage Porto
The Vintage Porto of Winery Quinta das Heredias matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of bernard's potée or cheese clafoutis.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta das Heredias's Vintage 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 Vintage Porto from Winery Quinta das Heredias are 1997, 1996, 0, 1999 and 2000.
Informations about the Winery Quinta das Heredias
The Winery Quinta das Heredias is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 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: Green harvest or green harvesting
The practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining grapes tend to gain weight.
