Winery Quinta de Santa EufémiaVintage Port
Natural sweet wine
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 de Santa Eufémia in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or licorice and sometimes also flavors of plum, chocolate or non oak.
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 de Santa Eufémia matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of dombrés and pig tails or chicken puff pastry.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta de Santa Eufémia's Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional
Deep, concentrated reds with a near-black robe, firm but polished tannins, showing aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, violet, bergamot, liquorice, black pepper and characteristic floral notes. Pillar of great vintage Ports (Quinta do Noval, Taylor's) and signature of modern dry Douro DOC and Dão DOC. Also exported to Australia and California. Portugal's most noble variety.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vintage Port from Winery Quinta de Santa Eufémia are 2008, 2014, 2007
Informations about the Winery Quinta de Santa Eufémia
The Winery Quinta de Santa Eufémia is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 28 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Porto
One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
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: Vinification of sweet wines
Moelleux and liquoreux wines are characterized by the presence of residual sugars (natural sugar of the grape), not transformed into alcohol under the effect of yeasts. The fermentation is stopped by cold and by the addition of sulphur dioxide (sulphur).
