Winery Quinta do PortalPorto Lágrima
Natural sweet wine
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 sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the Porto Lágrima from the Winery Quinta do Portal
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Porto Lágrima of Winery Quinta do Portal in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Porto Lágrima of Winery Quinta do Portal in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or oak.
Food and wine pairings with Porto Lágrima
Pairings that work perfectly with Porto Lágrima
Original food and wine pairings with Porto Lágrima
The Porto Lágrima of Winery Quinta do Portal matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, grandma's cherry clafoutis or endive salad with walnuts and blue cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Portal's Porto Lágrima.
Discover the grape variety: Crescent
A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Porto Lágrima from Winery Quinta do Portal are 2008
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Portal
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.
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: Grand Cru
In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.
