SKU: 14891
Quinta do Crasto Late Bottled Vintage Port 2014
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750ml
$27.99
Category | Port |
Varietals | |
Brand | Quinta do Crasto |
Origin | Portugal, Douro |
Alcohol/vol | 20% |
Dark purple in colour. The nose shows fresh notes of gum cistus, wild blackberries and delicate cocoa hints. Engaging on the palate, with fresh wild fruit flavours and an excellent structure made of firm, finely textured tannins. The finish is balanced and lingering. This wine was bottled with no filtration and this will allow it to evolve positively in the bottle.
Wine Advocate
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The 2014 Late Bottled Vintage Port is a field blend with 107 grams of residual sugar. It is a traditional, unfiltered LBV bottled in February 2019 with a long cork. There were 17,000 bottles produced, plus 6,000 half bottles, from vines with an average age over 60 years old. This isn't the most concentrated LBV this year, but the flavors are classic and the structure is reasonable-indeed, the structure is notably better than the fruit. Crasto has a fine reputation for LBVs, and at this price level, this is a very respectable offering in this rather difficult vintage. You can drink this now. It won't age as well as some of Crasto's big stars, but it can easily hold for 15+ years or so.