Winery Taylor's - Scion Port

Winery Taylor'sScion Port

4.8
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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 Scion Port of Winery Taylor's is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 4 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
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 sweet desserts.
The Scion Port of the Winery Taylor's is in the top 60 of wines of Porto.

Taste structure of the Scion Port from the Winery Taylor's

Light
Bold
Dry
Sweet
Soft
Acidic

In the mouth the Scion 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

Wine with oak taste

coffee, vanilla

On the nose the Scion Port of Winery Taylor's in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of vanilla, coffee or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices.

Details and technical informations about Winery Taylor's's Scion 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

Scion Port - 1855
In the top 60 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.911111

The best vintages of Scion Port from Winery Taylor's are 1855

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 400 of of Portugal wines
In the top 70 of of Porto wines
In the top 200 of natural sweet wines
In the top 7500 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: Friendly

Said of a wine whose aspects are pleasant and not too marked.

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