Winery Vieira de SousaFine Tawny Port
Natural sweet wine
This wine is a blend of 5 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Tinto cão, the Touriga franca, the Tinta Roriz and the Tinta Amarela.
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 mature and hard cheese.
Taste structure of the Fine Tawny Port from the Winery Vieira de Sousa
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Fine Tawny Port of Winery Vieira de Sousa in the region of Duriense is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Fine Tawny Port of Winery Vieira de Sousa in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or citrus fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Fine Tawny Port
Pairings that work perfectly with Fine Tawny Port
Original food and wine pairings with Fine Tawny Port
The Fine Tawny Port of Winery Vieira de Sousa matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, mature and hard cheese or blue cheese such as recipes of grandma's cherry clafoutis, casserole egg with saint-nectaire cheese or chicken with blue cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vieira de Sousa's Fine Tawny Port.
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 Fine Tawny Port from Winery Vieira de Sousa are 0
Informations about the Winery Vieira de Sousa
The Winery Vieira de Sousa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 39 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: Astringent
Said of a wine that is a bit harsh and rough on the palate. Astringency often appears in young red wines that are rich in tannins and need to be rounded out.
