Product details

• Variety

  Touriga Nacional
• Jorge Roquette, owner of Quinta do Crasto and Jean-Michel Cazes, owner of Château Lynch-Bages, were already great friends; now they are associates making "Xisto" a great Portuguese wine produced on the Douro valley. Xisto (Pronounced "Shistoo") means schist in Portuguese. The wine combines the unique spicy character of the Douro with the finesse of a Cru Classé Bordeaux – a truly sublime combination. The wine has very deep (almost opaque) red colour and a nose of violets, cassis and black cherries. On the palate the Xisto is remarkably elegant with a classic balance of fine ripe tannins and intense mouth filling fruit. Although delicious now, the 2005 Xisto will age well for the next 10 to 15 years.

• Alcohol

  14

• When to drink

  Can be drunk now but will keep very well

• Bottle

  75

• Style

  Richly Textured & Full Bodied Red

• Vintage

  2005

• Producer

  Roquette E Cazes

• Additional Varieties

  25% Tinta Roriz 15% Touriga Francesca

• Case Size

  6

• SKU

  52226105