Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 20 Years Old

Tasting
Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 20 Years Old has an attractive tawny colour with coppery hues. Its intense bouquet shows the character of a well-balanced maturing through oxidation: nuts, spices and a hint of dry fruit and marmalade. In the mouth it is a full-bodied, delicate, soft, velvety and lingering wine. In spite of its age it has well-balanced freshness, a consequence of the refreshing with younger wines carried out through its maturation. It is a fine, elegant and deeply lingering wine.

Maturation
The wines selected to enter the final blend of the Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 20 Years Old remain in the Douro after the harvest. They are taken to V.N.Gaia in the following Spring and enter the traditional Porto wine ageing process, in 640-litre oak casks. During their ageing period, the wines are subjected to numerous transfers, analyses and tasting, making it possible to monitor their ageing and intervene through blending, refreshing and corrections whenever tasting so advises. The final blend is obtained using wines aged between 15 and 40 years, so as always to achieve the average age, type, quality and style of Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 20 Years Old.

Store
Bottled after maturation, the wine is ready to drink and will not improve if kept for a long time. The bottle should be kept upright under a constant temperature of 16ºC-18ºC.

Serve
Aged Tawnies benefit if open some time before drinking. Serve between 12ºC-16ºC. When opened it does not require decanting and maintains fresh tasting notes for about 2-3 months.