The Winery Quinta do Mourão of Duriense

Winery Quinta do Mourão - Rio Bom Reserva
The winery offers 25 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 299 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Duriense

The Winery Quinta do Mourão is one of the best wineries to follow in Duriense.. It offers 25 wines for sale in of Duriense to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Quinta do Mourão wines

Looking for the best Winery Quinta do Mourão wines in Duriense among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Quinta do Mourão wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Quinta do Mourão wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Quinta do Mourão

How Winery Quinta do Mourão wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef tongue with mushrooms, the real recipe for carbonara or sri lankan lamb rolls (mutton rolls).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

On the nose the red wine of Winery Quinta do Mourão. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, earth or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Quinta do Mourão. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

  • 2003With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz

Discovering 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.

Donzelinho branco is one of the authorized Grape permitted to be blended in the wines of Duriense.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Quinta do Mourão

How Winery Quinta do Mourão wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef kidney or peppers with lentil stuffing.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Quinta do Mourão. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or dried fruit.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão

  • 2016With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Quinta do Mourão.

  • Tinta Barroca
  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Tinta Cão
  • Tinto Cao

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

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Planning a wine route in the of Duriense? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Quinta do Mourão.

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

News about Winery Quinta do Mourão and wines from the region

Champagne houses announce ‘first’ with B Corp certification

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The Wine Society improves provenance and quality of The Blind Spot

The Wine Society has made a move to improve the provenance and quality of its exclusive The Blind Spot wine range. The business said it would, for the first time in its history, provide the funding for buying grapes rather than liquid for the range of Australian wines. Winemaker Mac Forbes has spend the last decade identifying ‘interesting’ parcels of wine for the range, which has been an integral part of The Wine Society’s portfolio for the past 10 years, and securing them before th ...

Chateau St. Jean in Sonoma sold to Foley Family Wines

Foley Family Wines has returned to the acquisition trail in California by announcing its acquisition of Sonoma’s Chateau St. Jean from the Americas division of Treasury Wine Estates, owner of Penfolds in Australia. Foley said it ‘plans to restore the winery to its former glory’. A fee for the deal was not disclosed, but the purchase includes the historic 1920s chateau building, a 6,000-square-foot visitor centre, a winery facility and almost 32 hectares (79 acres) of estate vineyards. Fole ...

The word of the wine: Interknot

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see merithallus).

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