- 2001 Quinta do Crasto Touriga Nacional Douro - Portugal, Douro (10/28/2005)
Tasted at Quinta do Crasto in the Douro - Super dark color. Awesome nose. I could smell this forever. Powerful entry with a full bodied, massive mid-palate. Acid and tannins hold this in check. Really well balanced for its size. Tannins need a couple of years to resolve. Exceptional wine! (97+ pts.)
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Tasted again in mid December with my tasting group. No one was able to pick out varietal, or country of origin, only what type of oak. Most [4] thought it was shiraz.
Here is my original tn from another bulletin board.
Touriga Nacional and Shiraz.
Friday night tasting of two[ theoretically, or is that numerically] great wines. At 18:00 things are not going so great when I am decanting said wines. My wife and I try the wines after pouring them in the decanter.Both lack any nose, the palates soooo tight all that is there is a very long finish of fruit spice that was dominate in the palate.
21:30 after vigorious swirling in the decanters. QUINTO DO CRASTO TOURIGA NACIONAL 2001 and AMON-RA BAROSSA 2002 taste eerily similar. Both have improved immensly. Both sport a sweet vanilla American oak nose. Much of the same earlier fruitspice still dominate, both still boast an extremely long finish.
23;30 We are halfway thru the wines and either were impaired or the wines have slowly started to open up, yielding more richness and depth but not more flavours. These wines were so similar in everything that when I would swirl them I got them mixed up. The only way we could tell the difference was to put them on top of the lamp shade and say this is the Quinto because it was filtered, this is the Amon- Ra because it has goo in it.I went outside to see if it was a full moon. Rats no full moon no excuse for our collective taste buds to be off so much.
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Here is my original tn from another bulletin board.
Touriga Nacional and Shiraz.
Friday night tasting of two[ theoretically, or is that numerically] great wines. At 18:00 things are not going so great when I am decanting said wines. My wife and I try the wines after pouring them in the decanter.Both lack any nose, the palates soooo tight all that is there is a very long finish of fruit spice that was dominate in the palate.
21:30 after vigorious swirling in the decanters. QUINTO DO CRASTO TOURIGA NACIONAL 2001 and AMON-RA BAROSSA 2002 taste eerily similar. Both have improved immensly. Both sport a sweet vanilla American oak nose. Much of the same earlier fruitspice still dominate, both still boast an extremely long finish.
23;30 We are halfway thru the wines and either were impaired or the wines have slowly started to open up, yielding more richness and depth but not more flavours. These wines were so similar in everything that when I would swirl them I got them mixed up. The only way we could tell the difference was to put them on top of the lamp shade and say this is the Quinto because it was filtered, this is the Amon- Ra because it has goo in it.I went outside to see if it was a full moon. Rats no full moon no excuse for our collective taste buds to be off so much.
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