Winery Quinta do Vesuvio - Vintage Port

Winery Quinta do VesuvioVintage Port

4.4
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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 Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Vesuvio is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
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 Vintage Port of the Winery Quinta do Vesuvio is in the top 50 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, dark chocolate

Wine with earth taste

honey, leather

Wine with spices taste

licorice, cinnamon

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet

On the nose the Vintage Port of Winery Quinta do Vesuvio in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tree fruit or fig and sometimes also flavors of dark fruit, anise or nutty.

Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Vesuvio's Vintage Port.

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.

Last vintages of this wine

Vintage Port - 2017
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Vintage Port - 2016
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Vintage Port - 2015
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Vintage Port - 2014
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Vintage Port - 2013
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Vintage Port - 2012
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5

The best vintages of Vintage Port from Winery Quinta do Vesuvio are 2011, 1994, 2009, 1990 and 1992.

Informations about the Winery Quinta do Vesuvio

The winery offers 4 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
This winery is part of the Symington Family Estates.
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 Vesuvio is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 150 of of Portugal wines
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
In the top 55 of natural sweet wines
In the top 2500 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: Texture

In tasting, the equivalent of touch. It is the set of tactile sensations perceived by the mucous membranes of the mouth: silky, velvety, sticky, fatty, astringent, pasty, etc.

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