Winery Real Companhia VelhaMoscatel do Douro
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 blue cheese and sweet desserts.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Moscatel do Douro of Winery Real Companhia Velha in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Moscatel do Douro
Pairings that work perfectly with Moscatel do Douro
Original food and wine pairings with Moscatel do Douro
The Moscatel do Douro of Winery Real Companhia Velha matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of very simple muffins or watercress salad with vitamins.
Details and technical informations about Winery Real Companhia Velha's Moscatel do Douro.
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 Moscatel do Douro from Winery Real Companhia Velha are 2016, 2013, 2017, 2014 and 2008.
Informations about the Winery Real Companhia Velha
The Winery Real Companhia Velha is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 85 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
The wine region of Douro is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 1110 estates and châteaux in the of Douro, producing 4307 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Douro 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: Mineral
Taste reminiscent of gunflint, chalk and many nuances of the mineral world, and reinforcing, especially in white wines, the notion of freshness and the sappy character.
