Port wine Flashcards
Tasting panel of Port and control name
Camara de Provadores
3 sub-regions of Port area
Baixo Corgo
Cima Corgo
Douro Superior
Coolest and wettest and considered to produce lower quality grapes, which region?
Baixo Corgo
which region close to Pinhao town
Cima Corgo
Hottest and driest sub-region
Douro Superior
Best vineyards of Port?
Around the town Pinhao (Cima Corgo). The grapes are grown on the terraces which have been blasted out of the slate and granite.
Best and worst soil for Port?
Schist is the best
granite is the worst
Permitted grape varietals for Port?
Touriga national Tinta baroca Tinta cao Tinta Rorris (Aragon) Touriga Franca Trincadera (Tanta Amarela) Bastardo
Permitted varietals for white port?
Arinto Donzelinio Branca Gouveio (Verdelho) Malvasio Fino Rabigato Viosinho
Aguadente when added and made of what?
Added during fermentation (short fermented must 6-8 % abv but in high sugar-> strained off into vats where aguadente (grape spirit=distilled potuguese wine) (fortification)
1 part to 4 parts (77%abv) to stop fermentation
Pipe volume
550 litres during production and maturation
534.24 litres - when sold
Port transported to where?
Vila Nova de Gaia
Styles of Port
of Ruby Port Ruby Reserve Port Late-bottled Vintage (LBV) Crusted Port Vintage Port Single Quinta (or off vintage) Tawny Port Fine Old Tawny or Aged Tawny Port Colheita Port White Port Rose Port
Ruby Port
Youngest and least expensive
Blend of wines from more than 1 year, usually bottled approximately 4 years in wood
Ruby Reserve Port
blend of good quality Ruby Ports of more than one vintage, and its matured in wood
LBV Port
These are Ports from a SINGLE YEAR (not declared year) 4-6 years in wood.
The year of vintage and year of bottling must be stated on the label.
2 styles of bottling: filtered and unfiltered (will require decanting) - it will state on the label “unfiltered”
Crusted Port
Blend of quality wines from a number of vintages.
They bottled unfiltered, min 3 years matured in bottle
Vintage Port
Vintage year declared by the individual shippers, when they believe that their wine is of sufficient quality.
Vintage Ports are made only in exceptional years from a blend of wine of the same year.
The wine matured in cask for 2 years then bottled.
Vintage Port will continue mature in bottle for 10-15 years but may continue up to 40 years (or more, depending the year)
Single Quinta (Off vintage) Port
Single Quinta made in years when they have not declared a vintage. The wines made in same way as vintage ports, but they sold under their Quinta’s, ex: Dow’s Quinta do Bomfim.
They matured in bottle and treated same as Vintage Port.
What is Quinta
Estate
Tawny Port
2 method:
1) blending white port and ruby port
2) blends of wines (matured in cask for 7 years) from several years
Colheita Ports
Its Tawny Ports single vintage matured in cask min 7 years
Fine Old Tawny or Aged Tawny Ports
Blending ports from several years and maturing them in cask for 7-8 years.
10,20,30, 40 years on the label - average age of the wine in the barrel.
White Port
made from white grapes
Rose Port
less time in contact with the grape skin than for ruby
