Winery Sandeman - Founder's Reserve Ruby Port

Winery SandemanFounder's Reserve Ruby 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 Founder's Reserve Ruby Port of Winery Sandeman is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, vanilla

Wine with spices taste

licorice, cinnamon

Wine with earth taste

cocoa, leather

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet

On the nose the Founder's Reserve Ruby Port of Winery Sandeman in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, microbio or mint and sometimes also flavors of prune, cinnamon or cheese.

Food and wine pairings with Founder's Reserve Ruby Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Founder's Reserve Ruby Port

Original food and wine pairings with Founder's Reserve Ruby Port

The Founder's Reserve Ruby Port of Winery Sandeman matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of quick and easy monkfish tail or summer salad with red cabbage.

Details and technical informations about Winery Sandeman's Founder's Reserve Ruby Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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.

Last vintages of this wine

Founder's Reserve Ruby Port - N.V.
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Founder's Reserve Ruby Port - 2017
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110

The best vintages of Founder's Reserve Ruby Port from Winery Sandeman are N.V., 2017

Informations about the Winery Sandeman

The winery offers 83 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This winery is part of the Sogrape.
It is in the top 10 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Sandeman is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 69 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 1500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 200 of of Porto wines
In the top 450 of natural sweet wines
In the top 25000 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: Young

A very relative term that can designate a wine of the year that is already at its optimum, as well as a wine that has passed its first year but has not yet developed all its qualities.

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