Conqueror Port ruby

Color, flavor: port, fruity Grape varieties: touriga nacional, touriga franca, tinto cão, tinta barroca, tinto roriz Country, region: Portugal, Douro Good with: Dessert, Cheese 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 casks, 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 enjoyed as an aperitif before a meal, and the softer, more mellow tawny is enjoyed afterwards or simply with a piece of cheese.