This is one of the rarer port wines: matured white port wine
It is made with the same green grape types used for the production of white wine. After a decade with the producer, the wine now has a touch of – and color after – the long aging, and it now appears perfectly rounded and drinkable.
Quinta da Valeira is a small, family-owned house, which on the quinta of the same name has almost 10 hectares of vineyards in the butter hole between Cima Corgo and Douro Superior, a few km from São João de Pesqueira. I 430-500 m.o.h. grown a variety of the classic port wine grapes on impassable, slate-clad mountain sides.
The white, barrel-aged port wines are very similar to tawny, which as wine types are characterized by oxidative storage in smaller barrels. During the oxidation of the years, this wine transforms from an almost colorless wine to light amber with a peacock tail of storage aromas rather than preserving original fruit aromas. The cellar master has mixed this 10 year white of selected vintages with an age profile in the mixture corresponding to this and approved as such by the Port Wine Institute by tasting.
In the glass you meet irresistible, sweet aromas of pickled currants, orange syrup, cinnamon, cardamom, citrus peel and light caramel and a hint of vanilla. The acid is rustically ‘branded’, as long oxidative storage gives a complex composition between tartaric acid and a volatile touch that keeps the sweetness of the wine in check; it gives the balance as well as the desire for the next glass.
Enjoy this aged, white port as an excellent aperitif or after dinner drink, or try it for desserts with light caramel and / or nuts. And remember this now: good port wine is poured into spacious glasses, preferably white wine glasses, in which you get the optimal aroma experience rather than the ‘grandmother glass’ that is only used for wines that smell bad.
We recommend a serving temperature of 8-11 °, coolest if served as an aperitif.
This port wine contains 50 cl
