Winery Quinta do Vale MeãoVintage 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.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Vale Meão 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 Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Vintage Port
The Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Vale Meão matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of oxtail confit in red wine or chicken, zucchini and tomato pie.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Vale Meão's 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 Vintage Port from Winery Quinta do Vale Meão are 2011, 2007, 2017, 2001 and 2016.
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Vale Meão
The Winery Quinta do Vale Meão is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 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: Noble rot
A fungus called botrytis cinerea that develops during the over-ripening phase, an ally of great sweet white wines, when it concentrates the juice of the berries. It requires the humidity of morning fogs and beautiful sunny days, gives musts very rich in sugar and brings to the wines the famous taste of "roasted".
