Conqueror Port white

Color, taste: port, soft Grape varieties: malvasia, rabigato, códega, viosinho Country, region: Portugal, Douro Goes well with: Cheese, Dessert Just like all other ports, the Conqueror ports come from the Douro valley, an area in the north of Portugal. Port is a fortified wine. It tastes sweeter and stronger than 'regular' wines because the winemaker adds alcohol while the grapes are fermenting. This immediately stops the fermentation and leaves a lot of grape sugar behind, which makes port sweet. Port can be divided into rubies and tawnies. A ruby matures briefly in wooden casks and thus retains its ruby-red, ruby, color and fruity taste. Due to the long maturation in cask, a tawny loses that red color and gains the brown tawny shade and aromas of raisin, dried fig, nuts, and caramel. The fresh-sweet, fruity ruby is for example drunk as an aperitif before the meal, and the softer, more mellow tawny rather afterwards or simply with a piece of cheese.