Winery Quinta do EstanhoPorto Special White Reserve
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Special White Reserve of Winery Quinta do Estanho in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Estanho's Porto Special White Reserve.
Discover the grape variety: Valérien
Simple, fresh dry whites with a pale golden robe, supple palate with moderate acidity, showing understated citrus and white flower aromas. Discreet rustic southern profile. Nearly extinct, preserved in INRAE variety collections for its heritage value, it reflects the pre-phylloxera ampelographic diversity of south-eastern France. Rare French white variety, formerly grown in the south-east.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Special White Reserve from Winery Quinta do Estanho are 2015, 2008
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Estanho
The Winery Quinta do Estanho is one of of the world's greatest 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: Gluing
Method consisting in clarifying the wine and giving it a limpidity by incorporating a specific product.
