Winery Real Companhia VelhaMalvasia White Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Malvasia White Port of Winery Real Companhia Velha in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of honey, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak.
Details and technical informations about Winery Real Companhia Velha's Malvasia White Port.
Discover the grape variety: Muscat d'Alexandrie
Intensely aromatic whites, from dry to sweet, with a golden to amber colour, an enveloping palate with moderate acidity, and explosive muscat aromas (rose, fresh grape), white flowers, exotic fruits (mango, pineapple) and honey in the sweet versions. Star of Moscatel de Setúbal (Portugal), Málaga (Spain), Passito di Pantelleria (Italy) and Maghreb muscats. Also a great table grape. Historic white variety of eastern Mediterranean origin.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Malvasia White Port from Winery Real Companhia Velha are 2013, 2009, 2008, 2011
Informations about the Winery Real Companhia Velha
The Winery Real Companhia Velha is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 85 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: White Grenache
White grape variety cultivated mainly in Spain and a little in the south of France (southern Rhône valley, Languedoc-Roussillon). It is the white variety of Grenache noir. It is used in the blending of several white wines (dry wines or natural sweet wines) to which it gives richness, fatness and floral notes.
