PORTO TAWNY 30 YEARS OLD
Denominação de Origem Controlada
GRAPE VARIETY
Tinta Barroca; Tinta Roriz; Touriga Franca; Touriga Nacional.
TASTING NOTES
Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 30 Year Old Port is a unique Port wine, a demonstration of the Ferreira brand's excellence in the creation of Old Tawny Port. It is also a tribute to Dona Antónia, the charismatic woman who dedicated her life to the Douro area and the city of Porto and who left Ferreira Port an exceptional legacy. The colour of this Port Tawny 30 is bright golden, with orange hues. The nose is intense and of excellent complexity, bringing out notes of spices such as pepper, ginger and nutmeg, balsamic wax and tobacco box, it also has light notes of ripe red fruit and aniseed. Excellent volume in the mouth, with vibrant acidity, lots of spices and in particular pepper, jam, with an extremely elegant and long finish. After destemming and crushing, the musts are pumped into stainless steel vats for alcoholic fermentation. During this phase, soft maceration takes place at a controlled temperature to extract the compounds present in the skins. Balance and harmony, as well as structure, are achieved through the selection of grapes and the choice of when to stop fermentation, with the addition of grape spirit. The fortified wines are aged in the cellars, in Vila Nova de Gaia, in oak barrels of approximately 640 litres. During this period, they are often subjected to racking, analysis and tasting, which allows their evolution to be followed. The final blend is usually made using wines aged between 25 and 40 years, in order to achieve an average age of 30 years, the quality and style of Ferreira. Ready to drink, it does not benefit from prolonged bottle ageing, although this certainly does not harm it. It does not require decanting. It should be served between 12 and 14°C.