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Porto Cruz
These DOC ports from the steep banks of the Douro River exhibit the winemaker’s craft, sophistication, and quality. They are classicly aged in wood for a minimum of two years.
Varieties
Porto Ruby
Porto Tawny
Special Reserve
Gran Cru Vintage 1989
Size
750ml
Grape Source
Douro region in Northern Portugal |
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Awards
Tawny
Gold Medal, Concours Mondial (Brussels) 2003
Silver Medal, Japan Wine Challenge 2003
Gold Leaf Award, Wine Masters Challenge (Portugal) 2002
Special Reserve
Gold Medal, Concours Mondial (Brussels) 2003
Gold Medal, Vinalies Internationales (Paris) 2003
Gold Medal, International Wine Challenge 2003
Silver Medal, International Wine Contest (Brussels) 2003
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Vintage 1989
Gold Medal, Concours Mondial (Brussels) 2003
Gold Medal, Vinalies Internationales (Paris) 2003
Gold Medal, Mundis Vini (Germany) 2002
Gold Medal, Les Citadelles du Vin (Portugal) 2002
Gold Medal, Bacchus de Plata (Madrid) 2002
Gold Medal, Consurso Nacional de Vinhos (Lisbon) 2002
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Porto Cruz The Porto Cruz ports are recognized worldwide—winning awards in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.—for their superb taste and quality. Porto Cruz represents the best of the wine that, in part, gave Portugal its fame.
Characteristics
Ruby & Tawnys: While the Ruby presents tastes of dried fruit and a color matching the jewel that shares its name, the longer wood-aged Tawnys exhibit tastes of hazelnuts, caramel, blueberries, and plums.
Vintage 1989: A fantastic port that is both rich and powerful, with aromas of cassis, blackberry, and flowers, sweetly balanced with restrained acidity and full tannins.
Food Pairings
Ruby: Chocolate is the ultimate match for Porto Cruz Ruby, and dark chocolate especially.
Tawnys & Vintage 1989: Their caramel undertones match a range of desserts from fancy, rich creme brulee to more casual confections like pecan pie.
Wine Growing Conditions
Both the city and river of Douro are the source for Porto Cruz, an area known as the wildest wine-growing landscape in the world, where donkeys and mules still assist in transporting the harvest to the quinta.
Like all vinho do portos, Porto Cruz starts with grapes grown in the Douro region on the steep banks of the Douro River where schist soils intermingle with granite, quartz, and clay. Grapes are fermented with the addition of brandy to arrest the fermentation and keep these wines sweet and rich as they are so well known. Porto Cruz is carefully blended (the law allows as many as 80 varieties) and mixed with the finest brandy. All Porto Cruz ports are casked in oak up to a maximum of three years, with the Vintage spending 10 or more years aging in bottle.
The Gran Cru Vintage 1989 Port represents an exceptional quality year, and is the marquis of the Porto Cruz brand as on average, three years in 10 are named vintage years, and only 10% of wine of that vintage year is declared Vintage. After being stored in oak casks, it’s bottled to mature in cellars on the cooler northern Douro River banks, in ideal conditions of temperature and humidity. Only vintage ports, like Porto Cruz`s Gran Cru Vintage 1989, have the distinction of being recognized by the Instituto do Vinhodo Porto (IVP), a strict standard of Portugese heritage of port crafting and quality. |
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| Fact Sheets | | | Title: Porto Cruz
Contents: Information on Porto Cruz Porto Ruby, Porto Tawny, Special Reserve and Gran Cru Vintage 1989.
Date: 10/13/2005 3:26:26 PM
| | | Shelf Talkers | | | Title: Porto Cruz Gran Cru Vintage 1989
Contents: 8.5x11 sheet of Shelf Talkers for Porto Cruz Gran Cru Vintage 1989.
Date: 10/13/2005 3:06:18 PM
Title: Porto Cruz Tawny
Contents: 8.5x11 sheet of Shelf Talkers for Porto Cruz Tawny.
Date: 9/21/2005 11:40:04 AM
Title: Porto Cruz Special Reserve
Contents: 8.5x11 sheet of Shelf Talkers for Porto Special Reserve.
Date: 9/21/2005 11:39:40 AM
| | | Case Cards | | | Title: Porto Cruz
Contents: Case Card displaying Porto Cruz.
Date: 9/21/2005 11:45:28 AM
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