Winery Rocha (Rocha's) - Special Tawny Reserve Port

Winery Rocha (Rocha's)Special Tawny Reserve Port

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Special Tawny Reserve Port of Winery Rocha (Rocha's) is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Special Tawny Reserve Port of Winery Rocha (Rocha's) in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, dried fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Special Tawny Reserve Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Special Tawny Reserve Port

Original food and wine pairings with Special Tawny Reserve Port

The Special Tawny Reserve Port of Winery Rocha (Rocha's) matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of monkfish tagine or gratin of giromon with bacon.

Details and technical informations about Winery Rocha (Rocha's)'s Special Tawny Reserve Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
19°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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

Special Tawny Reserve Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Special Tawny Reserve Port - 2005
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50

The best vintages of Special Tawny Reserve Port from Winery Rocha (Rocha's) are 2013, 2005

Informations about the Winery Rocha (Rocha's)

The winery offers 25 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This winery is part of the Sogevinus.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Rocha (Rocha's) is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 7000 of of Portugal wines
In the top 550 of of Porto wines
In the top 2000 of natural sweet wines
In the top 150000 wines of the world

The wine region of Porto

The wine region of Porto is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 312 estates and châteaux in the of Porto, producing 2132 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Porto 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.

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The word of the wine: Dish

Wine lacking tone and relief in the mouth.

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