Ferreira Dona Antonia 20 years old Tawny Port

€ 47.50

Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 20 Years Old is an exceptional Porto, a symbol of the excellence of the Ferreira brand's style in creating old Tawny Porto wines, culmination of fine grape selection, winemaking and blending expertise established over more than 250 years. Its classic profile, of great elegance and complexity but with great freshness, is unique and altogether one of the most acknowledged and celebrated wines in the world. It 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.

Food pairing

Porto Ferreira Dona Antónia Tawny 10 Years Old is a delicious Porto which, served slightly chilled, goes well with various rich starters, including foie-gras or intense cheese pies, salty vol-au-vents or creamy seafood. At the end of a meal, it is an ideal wine to match desserts such as nut and dry fruit tarts, crème brûlée and cured or blue cheese, or when served on its own.

Grapes: Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Cão, Tinta Amarela

The selected hand-picked grapes have been vinified in accordance with the traditional Porto wine method. Controlled fermentation took place in stainless steel vats and it was stopped through the addition of wine alcohol. The resulting wines were very elegant and with a great ageing potential. 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 & 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 6 months.

Alcoholcontent

20%

Critics & Awards

4,4/5 - Vivino (252 ratings)

18,5/20 - Grandes Escolhas Tasted: Jan 2022

93/100 - Wine & Spirits Magazine Tasted: Dec 2018

Doña Antonia

José Ferreira was one of the pioneers in the Douro Valley who started on a small scale in 1751. However, it was a woman who made the company as it stands on the map today. Dona Antonia Adelaide Ferreira, a business woman pur sang who has taken the export and spread of the brand to the next level, without making any concessions to the quality of her family product. She lived from 1811 to 1896 and belonged to the fourth generation of the family.

Dona Antonia was already a widow at the age of 33, a tragic fate from which she drew the strength to continue to build her Port house with enormous energy and flair. Much loved by the people and deeply concerned with the plight of the less fortunate, she founded several charities, which are still functioning today. A legendary and striking woman who was quickly given the pet name “Ferreirinha”, “the good lady of Ferreira”. A woman who had a particularly strong influence in the port world. To keep her in mind, Ferreira still markets her “Personal Reserve”, the “Dona Antonia”. A masterful selection of port wines from the Quinta do Seixo.

Tags: Ferreira - Douro