Winery Quinta do NovalSilval Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Silval Vintage Port of the Winery Quinta do Noval is in the top 70 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Silval 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, blueberry or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Silval Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Silval Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Silval Vintage Port
The Silval Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Noval matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of monkfish with vegetable tagliatelle or real savoyard fondue.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Noval's Silval Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca
Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Silval Vintage Port from Winery Quinta do Noval are 2011, 2004, 2002, 1994 and 2009.
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Noval
The Winery Quinta do Noval is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 65 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The word of the wine: Tired
Wine that is too old, faded or has suffered from handling such as racking or bottling. In the first case it is too late, in the second case the wine must be put to rest for a few weeks in the cellar.
