Winery Quinta do NovalNoval Black Ruby Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or veal.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Noval Black Ruby 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 spices.
Food and wine pairings with Noval Black Ruby Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Noval Black Ruby Port
Original food and wine pairings with Noval Black Ruby Port
The Noval Black Ruby Port of Winery Quinta do Noval matches generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal saltimbocca, turkey stuffed with chestnuts or duck breast with goat cheese and local ham.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Noval's Noval Black Ruby Port.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir
Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Noval Black Ruby Port from Winery Quinta do Noval are 1989, 2007, 2013, 2008 and 2015.
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: Destemming
Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.
