Quinta do Crasto Roquette and Cazes 2022 Red
€ 24.35
| Producer | Quinta do Crasto |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Touriga Nacional (60%), Touriga Franca (25%), Tinta Roriz (15%) |
| Ageing | 18 months in French oak casks |
| Alcohol | 14.5%vol |
| Serving | 16°C, decant Store at a constant 15°C |
| Drinking window | Up to 15 years after the harvest |
Roquette & Cazes 2022: the Douro and Bordeaux together, with velvety tannins.
Tasting note
Very dark core with an intense, bright violet-purple rim. An intense aroma of wild berries and elegant spice. Balanced, with a serious backbone, excellent volume and velvety tannins, and a fresh, long, intense finish.
The story
In 2002 the Roquette family of Quinta do Crasto and the Cazes family of Château Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux decided to pool their experience: the natural character of the Douro, combined with a century of experience in great Bordeaux. The winemakers are Daniel Llose (Lynch-Bages) and Manuel Lobo (Crasto).
The grapes come from vines around forty years old in the Cima Corgo and the Douro Superior. Hand-picked, destemmed and crushed, they ferment in temperature-controlled conical stainless steel vats, with rack-and-return. The wine then ages for eighteen months in French oak casks.
2022 was an extremely dry, hot year: Pinhão recorded 46.5°C, the highest temperature ever measured in Portugal. Harvest began on 18 August, the second earliest ever. Crasto’s old vines, with their deep roots, were a pleasant surprise, and the wines show moderate alcohol, balanced acidity and above all great elegance.
Food pairing
Excellent with hearty dishes of grilled or roast red meat, Italian dishes and game.
The producer
Quinta do Crasto lies on the right bank of the Douro, between Régua and Pinhão, in the heart of the Cima Corgo. The quinta is recorded as early as 1615, and in 1918 the Port merchant Constantino de Almeida bought the estate. His descendants still own it: in the 1980s Leonor de Almeida and her husband Jorge Roquette began modernising the vineyards, and since 1994 Crasto has released its wines under its own name.
The vineyards lie on steep schist terraces, with many very old field-blend vines, such as Vinha da Ponte and Vinha Maria Teresa. Crasto also owns Quinta da Cabreira in the Douro Superior, the source of the Superior wines.
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