Quinta do Crasto Superior White 2024
€ 17.98
| Producer | Quinta do Crasto |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Viosinho (60%), Verdelho (40%) |
| Ageing | 6 months in French oak (50% new), Oxoline |
| Serving | 9-11°C |
| Drinking window | Up to 5 years after the harvest |
Crasto Superior Branco 2024: citrus, orange blossom and fresh minerality.
Tasting note
Pale lemon with golden highlights. Great aromatic intensity, with lively citrus, delicate orange blossom and a striking, fresh minerality. A smooth attack, balanced, with a fresh texture, mineral notes and lively acidity, and an excellent, lingering finish.
The story
The Superior wines take their name from the Douro Superior, where the grapes come from: Quinta da Cabreira, where Crasto planted 114 ha of new vineyards.
For this wine Crasto uses Oxoline: a system in which each cask can rotate on a rack. The lees are stirred without opening the cask, so the wine stays protected from oxygen, preserving its primary aromas and natural freshness. The wine ages for six months in French oak casks, half of them new, some with acacia heads.
Food pairing
Try it with roast venison or hard goat’s cheese, or with roast chicken and fish mousse.
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.