Winery Vale D. MariaReserva Porto
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 Souzao and the Tinta Amarela.
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or mature and hard cheese.
Taste structure of the Reserva Porto from the Winery Vale D. Maria
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Reserva Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Reserva Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Reserva Porto
Pairings that work perfectly with Reserva Porto
Original food and wine pairings with Reserva Porto
The Reserva Porto of Winery Vale D. Maria matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of plain cupcakes, reblochon pie or soft quiche with roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vale D. Maria's Reserva Porto.
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
The best vintages of Reserva Porto from Winery Vale D. Maria are 2009, 2008, 2006, 2017 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Vale D. Maria
The Winery Vale D. Maria is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 32 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The word of the wine: Trimming
A vineyard operation consisting of pruning the upper part of the branches after lifting, either manually or using a trimming machine attached to a high-clearance tractor.
