Winery Quinta do Noval - 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Winery Quinta do Noval40 Year Old Tawny Port

4.6
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the world.
The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Quinta do Noval is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of the Winery Quinta do Noval is in the top 10 of wines of Portugal and in the top 5 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Quinta do Noval in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

Food and wine pairings with 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Pairings that work perfectly with 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Original food and wine pairings with 40 Year Old Tawny Port

The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Quinta do Noval matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of express veal stew in a pressure cooker or goose eggs in salad.

Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Noval's 40 Year Old Tawny Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
21°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão

- Origin : Most certainly from the north of Portugal, it is a very old grape variety, present for a very long time in the Douro Valley where it is very often associated with other grape varieties to produce the famous Port. It can also be found in the United States (California, etc.), Australia, Spain, Mexico, etc.

Last vintages of this wine

40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2017
In the top 5 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.811110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2014
In the top 5 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2008
In the top 5 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110

The best vintages of 40 Year Old Tawny Port from Winery Quinta do Noval are 2017, 2014, 2008

Informations about the Winery Quinta do Noval

The winery offers 58 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.
This winery is part of the AXA Millesimes.
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 Quinta do Noval is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 49 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 10 of of Portugal wines
In the top 3 of of Porto wines
In the top 10 of natural sweet wines
In the top 250 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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The word of the wine: Sweet

Wine with a slightly sickening sweetness.

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