Description
* Colour, taste: port, soft
* Grape variety: touriga nacional, touriga franca, tinto cao, tinta barroca, tinto roriz
* Country, region: Portugal, Douro
* Delicious with: cheese, dessert
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 more powerful than regular wines because the winemaker adds alcohol when the grapes ferment. As a result, the fermentation immediately stops and a lot of grape sugar remains behind that makes port sweet. Port can be divided into rubys and tawnys. A ruby ripens briefly in wooden barrels and therefore retains its ruby red, ruby color and fruity taste. Due to the long aging in barrel, a tawny loses that red color and gets the brown tawny hue and aromas of raisin, dried fig, nuts and caramel. For example, you can drink the fresh sweet, fruity ruby as an aperitif before dinner and the softer, sultry tawny just afterwards or with a piece of cheese.
