Conqueror Port tawny

Color, taste: port, mild Grape variety: touriga nacional, touriga franca, tinto cão, tinta barroca, tinto roriz Country, region: Portugal, Douro Delicious 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 ferment. This immediately stops the fermentation and leaves much 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.