Quinta do Crasto Douro Touriga Nacional 2012

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Quinta do Crasto Douro Touriga Nacional 2012 Front Label
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Region

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Vintage
2012

Size
750ML

ABV
14%

Features
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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Very attractive on the nose, showing intense and pure aromas of fresh red fruit and lively notes of violets. On the palate, an engaging and fresh beginning that leads to a serious wine. Voluminous on the palate, with fresh, finely-textured tannins, and intense notes of red berry fruit with soft chocolate hints. An engaging wine that finishes with great freshness and persistence.

Professional Ratings

  • 95
    Big and rich, this is full of Asian spice notes that are woven between ripe dark plum, blackberry and dried blueberry flavors. Chocolate mousse accents linger on the long, creamy finish, with some savory hints. Complex. Drink now through 2022.
  • 91
    The 2012 Touriga Nacional was aged for 16-18 months in new French barriques. That means that it was sourced from two different old-vines plots, each of which had different barrel treatment. Startlingly fresh and approachable, this lacks the tightly wound feel you might expect to see at this level, but if it doesn't seem concentrated and intense, it sure is fragrant and graceful. Utterly charming, crisp and aromatic, it is refined and beautifully balanced. Quite forward this year, it should be very nice young--which doesn't mean that it won't improve over the next few years. It does prove with air that it has a backbone, but the tannins are relatively ripe. It should make a great food wine and the bottle will drain fast at the table.

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Quinta do Crasto

Quinta do Crasto

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Quinta do Crasto, Portugal
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Nestled on a privileged location in the Douro, Quinta do Crasto is one of the oldest winemaking estates in the region – the name ‘Crasto’ is derived from the Latin word ‘castrum’, which means ‘Roman fort’. The first known references to Quinta do Crasto can be traced back to 1615, long before the Douro became the world’s first Demarcated Wine Region in 1756. In the early 1900s, Quinta do Crasto was purchased by Constantino de Almeida, the founder of the famous Constantino Port house. Today, his granddaughter, Leonor Roquette, and her husband Jorge Roquette own and manage the estate, together with their sons, Miguel and Tomás. The Roquette family has invested tremendous time, attention, and resources to rebuild and expand the vineyards and facilities to produce top quality Port and Douro table wines. Vineyard mapping, DNA-matched replanting, a new state-of-the-art wine cellar and centuries of tradition mean that no detail in the winemaking and vineyard management is overlooked.

Quinta do Crasto produces different styles of port and table wines each year. Together with their winemakers and their entire team, they seek to produce year after year wines that display the unique and beautiful characteristics of the Douro, through a tireless devotion to tradition, integrity and excellence.

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Gaining great popularity for its bold but beautifully aromatic dry red wines, Touriga Nacional is the noblest variety in Port wine. Most likely originating from the Dão region, today it grows throughout the Douro Valley as well. Somm Secret—As many as 80 grape varieties can be used to make Port wine, each contributing something unique to the resulting blend. Touriga Nacional adds great color, tannins and aromatics.

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Best known for intense, impressive and age-worthy fortified wines, Portugal relies almost exclusively on its many indigenous grape varieties. Bordering Spain to its north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean on its west and south coasts, this is a land where tradition reigns supreme, due to its relative geographical and, for much of the 20th century, political isolation. A long and narrow but small country, Portugal claims considerable diversity in climate and wine styles, with milder weather in the north and significantly more rainfall near the coast.

While Port (named after its city of Oporto on the Atlantic Coast at the end of the Douro Valley), made Portugal famous, Portugal is also an excellent source of dry red and white Portuguese wines of various styles.

The Douro Valley produces full-bodied and concentrated dry red Portuguese wines made from the same set of grape varieties used for Port, which include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (Spain’s Tempranillo), Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão, among a long list of others in minor proportions.

Other dry Portuguese wines include the tart, slightly effervescent Vinho Verde white wine, made in the north, and the bright, elegant reds and whites of the Dão as well as the bold, and fruit-driven reds and whites of the southern, Alentejo.

The nation’s other important fortified wine, Madeira, is produced on the eponymous island off the North African coast.

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