Winery Quinta do Portal - Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old

Winery Quinta do PortalPorto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old

4.5
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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 Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old 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.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old of Winery Quinta do Portal in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or dried fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old

Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old

Original food and wine pairings with Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old

The Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old of Winery Quinta do Portal matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of barbecued prime rib with coarse salt or saint nectaire cheese spread with local ham.

Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Portal's Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
19.93°
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.

Last vintages of this wine

Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old - 2008
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5

The best vintages of Porto Aged Tawny 40 Years Old from Winery Quinta do Portal are 2008

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 3 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 greatest 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 550 of of Portugal wines
In the top 250 of of Porto wines
In the top 250 of natural sweet wines
In the top 15000 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: Green

Said of a wine that is too acidic or marked by unpleasant vegetal tastes.

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