Winery Selfridges & CoWhytingham's Finest Reserve Ruby Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Selfridges & Co's Whytingham's Finest Reserve Ruby Port.
Discover the grape variety: Segalin
Colourful, fruity reds with an intense ruby robe, smooth tannins and a supple palate, showing simple aromas of red fruits (cherry, raspberry), plum, soft spices and Mediterranean notes. A productive, drink-young profile. Grown in small quantities in southern France for IGP Pays-d'Oc and modern southern blends. A French variety created in 1958 by complex crossing (Jurançon Noir × Portugais Bleu), intended for table wines.
Informations about the Winery Selfridges & Co
The Winery Selfridges & Co is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 18 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: Douçâtre
Soft wine with a dominant sweetness at the expense of freshness.
