Touriga Franca
Touriga Franca is a red grape variety that is considered the main ingredient for red port. A high yield ensures that this grape is grown more than the Touriga Nacional, which is better suited for port. The grape is mainly found in the Douro Valley in Portugal. The Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional grapes are often blended in Portugal. Not only in the Port, but also in dry wines from the Douro valley.
Touriga Franca is a red grape variety that is considered the main ingredient for red port. A high yield ensures that this grape is grown more than the Touriga Nacional, which is better suited for port. The grape is mainly found in the Douro Valley in Portugal. The Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional grapes are often blended in Portugal. Not only in the Port, but also in dry wines from the Douro valley.
What does wine from the Touriga Franca grape taste like?
The dark blue, almost purplish grapes of the touriga franca give beautiful, elegant grape juice. With both port and regular Portuguese red wines, the touriga franca provides beautiful notes of spices. Red fruits such as blueberries but also roses and dried dates provide the beautiful full flavors in this wine.
Touriga Franca is a red grape variety that is considered the main ingredient for red port. A high yield ensures that this grape is grown more than the Touriga Nacional, which is better suited for port. The grape is mainly found in the Douro Valley in Portugal. The Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional grapes are often blended in Portugal. Not only in the Port, but also in dry wines from the Douro valley.
What does wine from the Touriga Franca grape taste like?
The dark blue, almost purplish grapes of the touriga franca give beautiful, elegant grape juice. With both port and regular Portuguese red wines, the touriga franca provides beautiful notes of spices. Red fruits such as blueberries but also roses and dried dates provide the beautiful full flavors in this wine.
Port wine takes its name from the city of Porto, but is made from grapes from vineyards that lie far away from this city. The region of the origin of port is the Douro Valley, to be precise the part between Regua — about 80 kilometers upstream from Porto — and the Spanish border. The region received its official designation of origin as early as 1756.
Another special feature was the long-standing obligation that all port wine should be traded through Vila Nova de Gaia, a suburb of Porto. The wines ripened there for practical reasons: the climate is more suitable than in the Douro Valley, while its location by the sea made it possible to ship the wine directly.
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