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- Country: Portugal
- Wine Region: Douro
- Alc.: 14%
Quinta do Crasto Reserva Vinhas Velhas features an impressive ruby colour. Its concentration and depth of flavour are remarkable. The wine is full of black fruits, dark plum skin, and firm tannins. As a complement to this fruitiness, the wine also has a spice character.
Winemaking:
Quinta do Crasto Reserva Vinhas Velhas is a red wine resulting from grapes of one section from the vineyards of Quinta do Crasto with 70-year-old. The grapes after the harvest were rigorously inspected on a sorting table on the arrival to the cellar. The grapes were then completely destemmed and slightly crushed. After this, the must were transferred to temperature-controlled stainless steel vats where fermentation took place. It was aged 16 months in French oak barrels (85%) and American oak barrels (15%). The wine has been bottled without filtration, it can come to create deposit during its aging in bottle.
Grape Varieties:
Old Vines.
Tasting Notes:
Quinta do Crasto Reserva Vinhas Velhas is a red wine rich and intense, packed of fresh red fruit and elegant spice aromas. It's very attractive in the palate, evolving into a dense structure of fine-textured tannins, which is perfectly integrated with fresh red fruit flavours. It has a long and lingering ending.
Store and Serve Advice:
Store in a cool place (15ºC). Serve at 16ºC-18ºC.
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