Winery TescoRuby Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 5 varietals which are the Tempranillo, the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with pork, beef or game (deer, venison).
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Ruby Port of Winery Tesco in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or tobacco and sometimes also flavors of vanilla, black cherries or dark chocolate.
Food and wine pairings with Ruby Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Ruby Port
Original food and wine pairings with Ruby Port
The Ruby Port of Winery Tesco matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of southern beef meatballs, marielle's lamb and eggplant parmentier or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Tesco's Ruby Port.
Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo
Elegant, structured reds with aromas of strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, blond tobacco and pronounced vanilla from long oak ageing. Ranges from Joven to Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva. Star of Rioja DOCa, Ribera del Duero DO and Toro DO, also shines in the Douro as Tinta Roriz/Aragonez. One of the world's most planted Spanish varieties.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Ruby Port from Winery Tesco are N.V.
Informations about the Winery Tesco
The Winery Tesco is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 392 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: Breeding
It can last for several years. The bottles are stacked in the cellars and waited for the light and heat. The yeasts gradually give the wine compounds that enrich it. A long maturation is a guarantee of quality.
