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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm — PART 1 of Quinta do Crasto interviews. We begin with Tomas Roquette one of the owners. Tomas is the fourth generation at Quinta do Crasto. Crasto produces port wine since more than one hundred years and since 1994 also table wine with the same grape varieties as for port - more than a hundred different grape varieties.

Why did Quinta do Crasto start production table wines? Tomas explains the reasons. They wanted to show the world what is the potential of Douro, so they started to make table wines.

What is the type or the style of wines that they make at Quinta do Crasto. - wines that make people happy when they drink their wines.

About serving temperature: it is important not to serve the wines too warm. Chambré is not a good idea, especially if you are talking about wines with higher alcohol contents. They wines should be served at 16 to 18 degrees Celsius.

So what wines do they make at Quinta do Crasto? A port wine of course, but several table …

Duration : 5 min 55 sec

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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm — PART 2 of Quinta do Crasto interviews with Manuel Lobo de Vasconcellos, winemaker and oenologist at Crasto.

So, how do they do the winemaking at Quinta do Crasto? They follow a very practical philosophy of making wines: Very high quality grapes from the vineyards to make high quality wines. They make both a fortified port wine and a range of table wines, red and white. At Quinta do Crasto they also believe in using local traditional Portuguese grape varieties.

For the vinification and the work in the winery they donâ??t follow any specific recipe for how to do thing, they see how each vintage is and adapt to the climate and the grapes. The winemaking is about common sense, as Manuel says. Above all they like to respect the fruit in the wine.

They use both very modern winemaking technology and also very old: both temperature controlled stainless steel tanks and old concrete lagares. Manuel explains in detail how they work with treading the grapes in the …

Duration : 9 min 58 sec

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