Winery Taylor's - 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Winery Taylor's40 Year Old Tawny Port

4.6
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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 world.
The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Taylor'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.
The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of the Winery Taylor's is in the top 10 of wines of Portugal and in the top 10 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Taylor's 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 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Pairings that work perfectly with 40 Year Old Tawny Port

Original food and wine pairings with 40 Year Old Tawny Port

The 40 Year Old Tawny Port of Winery Taylor's matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef coarse salt or macaroni and cheese gratin.

Details and technical informations about Winery Taylor's's 40 Year Old Tawny Port.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
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

40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2014
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2013
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2012
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2011
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2010
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2008
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5
40 Year Old Tawny Port - 2007
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5

The best vintages of 40 Year Old Tawny Port from Winery Taylor's are 1940, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2011.

Informations about the Winery Taylor's

The winery offers 64 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This winery is part of the Taylor Fladgate.
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 Taylor's is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 42 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 20 of of Portugal wines
In the top 10 of of Porto wines
In the top 10 of natural sweet wines
In the top 350 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: Discharge

Action consisting of removing suspended particles (sludge) from the must.

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