Winery Taylor's - Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port

Winery Taylor'sQuinta de Vargellas Vintage 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 Quinta de Vargellas Vintage 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 Tinto cão and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port of the Winery Taylor's is in the top 50 of wines of Porto.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

chocolate, vanilla

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon, licorice

Wine with earth taste

leather, earthy

Wine with microbio taste

cheese, cream

Wine with floral taste

violet, lavender

On the nose the Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port of Winery Taylor's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cream, cedar or prune and sometimes also flavors of toffee, almonds or cinnamon.

Food and wine pairings with Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port

Original food and wine pairings with Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port

The Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port of Winery Taylor's matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of daube niçoise or autumn pumpkin pie.

Details and technical informations about Winery Taylor's's Quinta de Vargellas Vintage 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

Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2017
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2015
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2014
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2012
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2011
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2010
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port - 2009
In the top 50 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110

The best vintages of Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port from Winery Taylor's are 1990, 1968, 2011, 1984 and 1991.

Informations about the Winery Taylor's

The winery offers 60 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This winery is part of the Taylor Fladgate.
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 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 350 of of Portugal wines
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
In the top 150 of natural sweet wines
In the top 6500 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: Draft liquor (champagne)

After blending, the wine is bottled with a liqueur de tirage (a mixture of sugar and wine) and a yeast (selected yeasts). The yeast attacks the sugar and creates carbon dioxide. The fermentation, which lasts about two months, is prolonged by an ageing period (15 months minimum in total). The bottle is capped (some rare vintages are capped with a staple and a cork).

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