TN: 1999 Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz Douro

1999 Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz Douro - this wine made from the Tinta Roriz grape (which is the Portuguese name for what the Spanish call tempranillo) was still quite dark and still shows spicy purple fruit notes. Clearly a hot country wine, if tasted blind the first thought might be toward Australia, except that the wine lacked the roast coffee and vanilla (sometimes coconut) notes usually found in wines raised in American oak, although to be fair a large number of Australian wineries have moved to more French oak in recent years. Mellow and soft now at a quarter century of age, it would still be a tough one to nail when tasting blind.

[Jenise]

Sounds very nice. QdC are wines I had no experience with before I moved up here and started coming to your lunches. For awhile, one showed up pretty much annually from one or another. It was apparently a popular (and obviously worthy) purchase for those in the know. How many more bottles do you have?

How many more bottles do you have?

Mixed case of 12.