Winery Vieira de Sousa - Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port

Winery Vieira de SousaQuinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port

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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 Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port of Winery Vieira de Sousa 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 franca.
This wine generally goes well with beef

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The Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port of Winery Vieira de Sousa matches generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of beef stew express.

Details and technical informations about Winery Vieira de Sousa's Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
19.5°
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

Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port - 1997
In the top 100 of of Porto wines
Average rating: 4.411110

The best vintages of Quinta da Agua Alta Fine Tawny Port from Winery Vieira de Sousa are 1997

Informations about the Winery Vieira de Sousa

The winery offers 37 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This winery is part of the Vieira de Sousa.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Porto in the region of Duriense

The Winery Vieira de Sousa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Duriense
In the top 7500 of of Portugal wines
In the top 2500 of of Porto wines
In the top 2000 of natural sweet wines
In the top 200000 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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