Winery Quinta do NovalLate Bottled Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 5 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca, the Touriga nacional and the Tinta Roriz.
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or mature and hard cheese.
Taste structure of the Late Bottled Vintage Port from the Winery Quinta do Noval
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Noval in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Noval in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, red fruit or tobacco.
Food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Late Bottled Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port
The Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Noval matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of grandma's cherry clafoutis, mushroom and bacon cake or pasta with gorgonzola sauce very simple.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Noval's Late Bottled Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca
Intensely coloured, warm reds, sun-drenched with generous alcohol, with aromas of red and black candied fruits, plum, gentle spices and cocoa notes. Ripe tannins and a broad palate. Traditional partner of touriga nacional and touriga franca in the blends of great Port wines (especially Tawny and Ruby) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Quinta do Noval are 1987, 1973, 1997, 2017 and 2000.
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Noval
The Winery Quinta do Noval is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 64 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: Reims Mountain
Between Épernay and Reims, a large limestone massif with varied soils and exposure where pinot noir reigns supreme. Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay, Verzy, etc., are equivalent to the Burgundian Gevrey-Chambertin and Vosne-Romanée. There are also great Chardonnays, which are rarer (Mailly, Marmery, Trépail, Villers).
