Winery Van ZellersFonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto
Natural sweet wine
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 mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, beef or sweet desserts.
Taste structure of the Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto from the Winery Van Zellers
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto of Winery Van Zellers in the region of Duriense is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Food and wine pairings with Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto
Pairings that work perfectly with Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto
Original food and wine pairings with Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto
The Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto of Winery Van Zellers matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, sweet desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of barbecue burger, king's cake with frangipane or pear and gorgonzola tart.
Details and technical informations about Winery Van Zellers's Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage 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 Fonseca & Van Zeller Vintage Porto from Winery Van Zellers are 2015
Informations about the Winery Van Zellers
The Winery Van Zellers is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
The wine region of Douro is located in the region of Duriense of Portugal. We currently count 1110 estates and châteaux in the of Douro, producing 4307 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Douro 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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