Winery Quinta do Portal - Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto

Winery Quinta do PortalAlegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto

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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 region.
The Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto of Winery Quinta do Portal is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Food and wine pairings with Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto

Pairings that work perfectly with Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto

Original food and wine pairings with Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto

The Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto of Winery Quinta do Portal matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of polish goulash or cheese cromesquis.

Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Portal's Alegre 10 Aged Tawny Porto.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
20°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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.

Informations about the Winery Quinta do Portal

The winery offers 102 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 65 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Quinta do Portal is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 90 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 15000 of of Portugal wines
In the top 4000 of of Porto wines
In the top 4000 of natural sweet wines
In the top 350000 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: Dry extract

Non-liquid constituents of wine.

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