De La Rosa Tawny Port 20 Year Old 500ml
Trust your Taste
Dried fig and plum mingle with almonds, spice and a liqueur-like richness in this twenty-year-old tawny. Sweet and silky, it has a long finish that feels relatively dry. Try it slowly after dinner to enjoy its layers.
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Rich fruit and silky texture with mature complexity favour Broad palates. PalateKey groups wines by how they feel, helping you find styles you enjoy. Your own taste comes first.
This suits you if you enjoy rich, silky tawny with dried fruit, almonds and spice.
It may not suit you if you prefer fresh berry flavours or genuinely dry wine.
Tasting Notes
- Region Portugal
- Extras New
- Style FortifiedPort
- Type Fortified
- Grapes Tourigablend
- Body Full
Tasting Notes
- Region Portugal
- Extras New
- Style FortifiedPort
- Type Fortified
- Grapes Tourigablend
- Body Full
How this wine feels
This feels rich and smoothly rounded, with gentle grip. Dried fruit and almonds share the middle, while freshness gives the long finish definition. It is sweet, despite its dry-feeling finish.
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How much presence and firmness the wine has in your mouth.
The drying, gripping feeling on your gums.
The fresh, mouth-watering edge of the wine.
Bitter, herbal or savoury character beyond the fruit.
How smooth and rounded the wine feels.
Ripe fruit character. This is not a sugar-sweetness rating.
Ripe fruit flavours can be present in dry wines. Sweet-Fruit Expression describes fruit character, not residual sugar.
Behind the bottle
Quinta de la Rosa twenty-year-old Tawny Port.
Foot-trodden grapes produce fortified wines matured in old oak pipes for an average of twenty years.
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