Winery Quinta do EstanhoFine White Porto
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Estanho's Fine White Porto.
Discover the grape variety: Orbois
Supple, fresh dry whites with a pale golden colour, ample palate with moderate acidity, aromas of apple, pear, white flowers and brioche notes. Also as sparkling (Crémant de Loire). Featured in the AOC Touraine, Cheverny, Valençay and Crémant de Loire blends, it defines authentic Loire whites. Synonym of Arbois, indigenous French white variety from Touraine, mainly grown in Loir-et-Cher (not to be confused with the Jura wine region of Arbois).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Fine White Porto from Winery Quinta do Estanho are 2008, 0, 2015
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Estanho
The Winery Quinta do Estanho is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 25 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: Friendly
Said of a wine whose aspects are pleasant and not too marked.
