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Quinta do Infantado Tawny Port NVPrice: $17.00    Case Price: $15.30

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Color:
Red
Body/Type:
Fortified
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Quinta do Infantado
Grapes:
Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz
Serve At:
46°-54° F
Region:
Portugal > Douro > Pinhão

This tawny Port is aged for about 4 1/2 years in large vats of older wood with a porous surface to allow the slow seepage of oxygen which promotes the development of light nut and caramel flavors.

Owned by the Roseira family since the end of the 19th century, Quinta do Infantado has been a leader in estate-bottled Ports since 1979. Managed by brother and sister, João Roseira, vineyard manager/winemaker, and Catherine Roseira, Chief Executive, the vineyards (terraced, very steep and hard-soiled) are worked in traditional methods: the grapes are picked by hand and still foot “trodden”.
Quinta do Infantado has a definite house style. Trusting in the richer fruit flavors that their vineyards provide, they ferment their wines to semi-dryness. Subsequently Infantado can use up to 30% less brandy to fortify their Ports. This can make the wine’s acidity more pronounced which makes the wines very flexible in food pairings.

Long summers, brutally hot temperatures, and steep hillsides that range from thirty five to seventy degrees of inclination are what awaits the brave souls who decided to grow grapes and craft wine in this part of the world. As Karen McNeil summarizes "that vineyards are planted in the Douro is a testament to human will, for this is one of the most unmerciful environments in which grapes manage to grow." Many winemakers will often comment that the more the grape vines have to struggle, the better character the wine will display. Wines from the Douro have an awful lot of character!

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