Winery Taylor'sLate Bottled Vintage Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 6 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca, the Touriga nacional, the Tinta Roriz, the Tinta Cão and the Tinta Amarela.
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or mature and hard cheese.
Taste structure of the Late Bottled Vintage Port from the Winery Taylor's
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Taylor's in the region of Duriense is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Taylor's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of citrus, smoke or apples.
Food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Late Bottled Vintage Port
Original food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Port
The Late Bottled Vintage Port of Winery Taylor's matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of yoghurt cake, scrambled eggs with bacon on toast or potatoes with blue cheese and bacon.
Details and technical informations about Winery Taylor's's Late Bottled Vintage Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca
Intensely coloured, warm reds, sun-drenched with generous alcohol, with aromas of red and black candied fruits, plum, gentle spices and cocoa notes. Ripe tannins and a broad palate. Traditional partner of touriga nacional and touriga franca in the blends of great Port wines (especially Tawny and Ruby) and modern dry Douro DOC. Native Portuguese variety from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Port from Winery Taylor's are 1970, 1977, 1997, 1992 and 1987.
Informations about the Winery Taylor's
The Winery Taylor's is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 55 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: Carbonic maceration
Fermentation of whole grapes in a carbon dioxide-saturated atmosphere. This type of fermentation produces very aromatic and flattering wines.
