2024 Quinta Do Crasto ‘Superior Branco’ White Blend

WA92 The 2024 Superior Branco has more complexity and nuance than the regular Branco. It’s pale, harmonious and spicy, showy, clean, fresh and balanced. It was produced with a blend of 60% Viosinho and 40% Verdelho from vines at high altitude on granite soils in the Douro Superior. It fermented with selected yeasts in stainless steel and matured in French oak barrels, 50% of them new, for six months with bâtonnage. It’s showy and attractive with integrated oak and very good freshness and balance. It has contained ripeness, 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.34 and 6.1 grams of acidity. 61,934 bottles and 300 magnums produced. It was bottled from June 2025. Estate Notes: Pale lemon in colour, clear and bright. Remarkably intense, pure and focused on the nose, showing fresh citrus notes — lime and grapefruit — delicately integrated with floral hints of orange blossom, supported by a vibrant mineral matrix. Fresh, precise and tight on the palate, offering a lively natural acidity that gives the wine a noteworthy energy. It evolves with depth, balance and freshness into a serious wine, with excellent volume and engaging texture. This is clearly a food-friendly wine, with a long, persistent and precise finish. Its well-integrated natural acidity and its solid and balanced structure reveal excellent capacity for ageing in the bottle. 60% Viosinho; 40% Verdelho.