Roquette & Cazes Xisto 2019

Roquette & Cazes Xisto 

Region: Douro, Portugal

Vintage: 2019

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz

ABV: 15%

Touriga Nacional delivers an excellent bouquet combining blackberry and elderberry and imbues the wine with complexity and elegance. The Touriga Franca lends the wine its fragrant character and persistent fruitiness, whilst the Tinta Roriz brings original aromas.

Its name, “Xisto”, (pronounced “sheestoo”) depicts the schist soil of the great terroirs of the Douro valley: that magnificent valley whose vines seem to have taken over the mountainside and where a continuous succession of terraces marks the majestic landscape with deep grooves.

Xisto benefits from a specific fermentation management, that is, through Bordeaux-style vinification protocols adapted to the potential of the grape varieties used. The fermentations are carried out at higher temperatures than those used in Portuguese vinification. Likewise, speeding up the pumping over during the first three days of fermentation and a longer maceration time give the wine its exceptional concentration.

They'd known each other for a long time… The idea had been simmering in their heads for years. Jorge Roquette, owner of Quinta Do Crasto in Portugal and Jean-Michel Cazes, who owns Château Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux, went into partnership in 2002 to create Xisto – Roquette & Cazes, a Portuguese grand vin produced in the Douro valley.

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