Quinta do Crasto Port 30 years old
€ 133.00
| Producer | Quinta do Crasto |
| Region | Douro |
| Ageing | 30 years old, in Portuguese oak vats |
| Alcohol | 20%vol | pH: 3.51 |
| Serving | Lightly chilled, 12-14°C Store at a constant 12°C |
A thirty-year-old tawny: caramelised figs, roasted almonds and orange marmalade.
Tasting note
Bright amber with coppery hues. Remarkable complexity and intensity: dried fruit, caramelised figs, roasted almonds and orange marmalade, with honey, delicate spice and iodine. Concentrated and full-bodied, with a smooth, fresh texture, and a long, extraordinarily complex finish.
The story
Over its long ageing a tawny takes on an amber hue: the young, rich fruit turns into elegance, with a silky texture and intense, soft flavours that only time can give.
The grapes come from old vines and are strictly sorted. With their stems they are lightly crushed and then foot-trodden in a stone lagar. Grape spirit is then added to stop fermentation. The Port ages in 9,000-litre Portuguese oak vats.
Food pairing
Delicious as an aperitif, and wonderful with chocolate, desserts, nuts and aged cheese. For example with chocolate mousse with candied orange, made with 60% cocoa chocolate.
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.
