Quinta do Crasto - Vintage Port 2016 (750ml)

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Producer	Quinta do Crasto
Country	Portugal
Region	Douro
Varietal	Red Blend
Vintage	2016
Sku	1061

Vibrant, with plum, cassis and boysenberry puree flavors streaming through, laced with chocolate, violet and pastis notes. Sleek and polished through the finish, showing latent energy. Should wind up on the elegant side of the stylistic spectrum when this hits its peak. Best from 2035 through 2050. 1,833 cases made, 250 cases imported. 

The 2016 Vintage Port is a field blend with 96 grams of sugar. This is the final blend and out of cask, set to be bottled in a week or so. Sweet up front, although the paper statistics don't suggest that, this has plenty of tannic pop on the finish. Manuel Lobo, comparing to the 2015, said that the fruit was better on the 2015, while this 2016 had more muscle. Despite the power, this should be approachable fairly young, in the context of Vintage Port. At this point, I'd prefer the 2015, but we'll how they both age in time. With Port, that's always the final answer. This might have more room to grow. There were 22,000 bottles produced.