Winery Vale D. Maria - Late Bottled Vintage Porto

Winery Vale D. MariaLate Bottled Vintage Porto

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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 Late Bottled Vintage Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria is a natural sweet wine from the region of Porto of Duriense.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

vanilla, dark chocolate

Wine with spices taste

mint

Wine with microbio taste

cheese

On the nose the Late Bottled Vintage Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of cherry, vanilla or dark chocolate and sometimes also flavors of black fruits, raisin or prune.

Food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Porto

Pairings that work perfectly with Late Bottled Vintage Porto

Original food and wine pairings with Late Bottled Vintage Porto

The Late Bottled Vintage Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef enchilladas au gratin or spicy squash parmentier.

Details and technical informations about Winery Vale D. Maria's Late Bottled Vintage Porto.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
20°
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

Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2015
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2014
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2013
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 411110
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2012
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2011
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2010
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Late Bottled Vintage Porto - 2003
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.311110

The best vintages of Late Bottled Vintage Porto from Winery Vale D. Maria are 2003, 2015, 2014, 2011 and 2013.

Informations about the Winery Vale D. Maria

The winery offers 28 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This winery is part of the Van Zellers & Co..
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 Vale D. Maria is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 25 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 1500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 400 of of Porto wines
In the top 400 of natural sweet wines
In the top 25000 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: Arching

A stage in the vegetative cycle of the vine that occurs after the leaves have fallen and is characterized by the drying out of the soft shoots, which are transformed into hard shoots by lignification.

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