Winery Quinta dos AciprestesGrande Reserva Sousão
Red wine
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
This wine generally goes well with beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb.
The Grande Reserva Sousão of the Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes is in the top 90 of wines of Douro.
Taste structure of the Grande Reserva Sousão from the Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes
Light | Bold | |
Smooth | Tannic | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Grande Reserva Sousão of Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes in the region of Duriense is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Grande Reserva Sousão of Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Grande Reserva Sousão
Pairings that work perfectly with Grande Reserva Sousão
Original food and wine pairings with Grande Reserva Sousão
The Grande Reserva Sousão of Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of monkfish tagine, ricotta and spinach lasagna or lamb mice confit in port wine.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes's Grande Reserva Sousão.
Discover the grape variety: Corinthe
Emblematic raisin of the Peloponnese (currants), with small seedless grapes of intensely coloured, thin-skinned berries with concentrated sweet flesh. Rarely vinified. Grown in Greece, Australia and California, used almost exclusively for the production of traditional Greek raisins used in pastry and cooking, emblematic of ancestral Aegean viticulture. Greek seedless white variety, grown mainly for Corinth raisins.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Grande Reserva Sousão from Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes are 2012, 2011, 0, 2014 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes
The Winery Quinta dos Aciprestes is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
Cradle of Port: opulent fortified wine with notes of candied black fruit, cocoa, fig, walnut and spice, from young fruity Ruby to oxidative amber Tawny, plus age-worthy LBV and Vintage of exceptional cellaring. Also great dry Douro DOC reds, structured and deep (violet, black-fruited Touriga Nacional, elegant Touriga Franca, spicy Tinta Roriz). A few fresh Douro whites. Terraced vineyards (~40,000 ha) UNESCO on schist.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: VDN
Natural sweet wine. Wine obtained by mutage of the must during fermentation by adding over-finished alcohol at 96 °, produced in the vineyards of Roussillon, Languedoc, Rhone Valley and Corsica.
