Description
Winemaker Notes
Deep purple in color. The nose shows a perfect balance between aromas of fresh spice, gum cistus and wild berry fruit. The palate offers a powerful attack, evolving into a balanced and sound wine, with silky-textured tannins that are well-integrated with lovely retronasal aromas of wild berries. This is an engaging, food-friendly wine, with a long, lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
95 Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
The 2018 Tinta Roriz was aged in new French oak for 16 to 18 months, depending on the plot (with three vineyards separately fermented). It comes in at 14.7% alcohol. There’s a long finish filled with flavorful fruit. It has both personality and structure. This manages to show mid-palate finesse as well. It’s another big winner from Crasto this report. Crasto tends to make refined and accessible wines these days, but this is always the one with the most tannic pop, at least among the monovarietals. (Sometimes, when the specialty wines like Vinha da Ponte are produced, there are competitors in that regard.) This is a little tight, and it tightens even more with an hour of air. Even here, though, the wine is put together beautifully and without too much astringency. There is plenty of tannic pop, but the tannins are not too hard. So, you could drink this now, although that would be a big mistake. Coming back around 2023-2025 would be a much better idea, and it may not be at peak even then. Not many in Portugal are having this type of success with this famed Spanish grape (a.k.a. Tempranillo).
Rating: 95+
94 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2018 Quinta do Crasto Tinta Roriz is a rich and lively red wine. This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of fragrant spices, savory oak, and licorice. Try it with Vietnamese grilled pork skewers. (Tasted: March 24, 2025, San Francisco, CA)
93 Wine Enthusiast
From a selection of the best parcels of Roriz on the Crasto estate, this wine was aged for 18 months in wood. It shows great richness, dense structure and youthful black fruits. Concentration and powerful tannins promise long-term aging.
93 James Suckling
This is earthy and chocolaty with ripe, mellow dark fruit and spicy undertones. Full and velvety with juicy acidity coming through. Textural and firm with a lingering finish. A little austere, but there’s plenty of energy here.
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