Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz is a premium range wine produced with 100% Tinta Roriz grapes and is only bottled in years in which a high level of quality and excellence is achieved.

Over the years, Quinta do Crasto has identified three ideal vineyard plots of this variety with three sun exposures – east, east-south and west-north – at the same altitude and with soil that, despite being poor on the surface, presents a layer of clay at a depth of one and a half meters that retains winter water and thus provides the water conditions necessary for the excellent performance of the vine.

Tinta Roriz is a challenging grape variety from an oenological point of view. As it has a high concentration of tannins, its biggest challenge is the phenolic ripeness of the grapes. This variety needs its ideal terroir in terms of soil, altitude and sun exposure, with favorable weather conditions throughout the year, so that it can achieve the desired performance in terms of tannin maturation.

Subsequently, it may be necessary to carry out a selected harvest on each plot and, once in the cellar, it is essential to carry out precision, very careful vinification, in order to safeguard all the potential that comes from the vineyard to obtain a high quality product.

In some years when the climatic conditions do not allow the correct ripening of Tinta Roriz, it is not possible to achieve the level of qualitative excellence required by the Quinta do Crasto Enology team and, when this happens, the decision is made not to produce this monovarietal. . Fortunately, for the last nine years, Quinta do Crasto has been producing Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz consistently. Aged 100% in new French oak barrels, Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz wine was only produced in 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz wine has a bright and concentrated color. Intense aroma of ripe fruit, with notes of good wood. Great presence in the mouth, soft and round, all very well balanced. Long and prolonged finish. Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz 2017 is a wine with a deep ruby ​​color, with excellent aromatic complexity on the nose where fresh notes of rockrose stand out, in perfect harmony with elegant notes of spice and wild berries. It starts in the mouth in a captivating way, immediately transmitting excellent volume. It presents a structure of great solidity, where it is possible to find tannins of great personality, well integrated with elegant aromas of wild fruits. A wine that conveys the essence of the Tinta Roriz variety, and ends harmoniously and with excellent persistence.

Quinta do Crasto's monovarietals are premium wines produced with 100% grapes of the respective variety and only bottled in years of exceptional quality, in which the variety demonstrates its true potential, that is, the maximum expression of the identity of that same variety.