Quinta Do Crasto Vinha da Ponte 2018
Quinta Do Crasto Vinha da Ponte
Region: Douro, Portugal
Vintage: 2018
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Touriga Nacional and field blend
ABV: 14.5%
Deep purple in colour. With an extraordinary aroma intensity, the nose shows wild berry fruit notes in perfect harmony with elegant hints of spice and cocoa. The palate starts in an enchanting way, leading to a textured wine that has excellent volume and a solid structure made of velvety, lingering tannins. Lots of complexity and depth to the end. This is a terroir wine that perfectly reflects the pure essence of its provenance, the Vinha da Ponte vineyard.
Quinta do Crasto Vinha da Ponte is a super premium, single vineyard Douro DOC red wine. It is released in highly limited quantities, due to the low yield of the old vines, especially those over a hundred years of age. Rarely are more than 4,000 bottles produced.
The grapes are foot trodden in traditional stone trough or lagares at Quinta do Crasto, and the wine is then aged for 20 months in French oak barrels at the Barrel Cellar under strictly controlled temperature and humidity conditions
Located in a prime spot in the Douro Demarcated Region in Northern Portugal, Quinta do Crasto has been in the family of Leonor and Jorge Roquette for more than a century. Like all the other great Douro estates, Quinta do Crasto dates far back into ancient times. The name Crasto comes from the Latin castrum meaning “Roman fort”.
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