Winery Quinta do CrastoColheita Porto
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
The Colheita Porto of the Winery Quinta do Crasto is in the top 60 of wines of Porto.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Colheita Porto of Winery Quinta do Crasto in the region of Duriense often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
Details and technical informations about Winery Quinta do Crasto's Colheita Porto.
Discover the grape variety: Mouyssaguès
Light, simple reds with a clear ruby colour, soft tannins and a supple palate, showing undemonstrative aromas of red fruits (cherry, raspberry), gentle spices and herbal notes. Rustic, airy profile to drink young. Preserved in INRAE variety collections, it bears witness to the pre-phylloxera ampelographic diversity of the South-West and is among the heritage varieties under study. Native black variety from South-West France, today almost extinct.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Colheita Porto from Winery Quinta do Crasto are 2017, 2016, 2001, 1997 and 0.
Informations about the Winery Quinta do Crasto
The Winery Quinta do Crasto is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 36 wines for sale in the of Porto to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Porto
One of the world's oldest fortified wines: fortified with grape spirit during fermentation, keeping its residual sugars. Opulent style, long on the palate, notes of candied black fruits, cocoa, fig, walnut, coffee and spices. Four styles: young fruity Ruby (cherry, blackberry), Tawny aged oxidatively in cask (caramel, hazelnut, bitter orange), age-worthy LBV and Vintage, White as aperitif. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: Pagan
See savagnin.
