2016 - Croft
21B6CROF6PK _ 2016 - Croft - 6x75cl
Colour
Port_Sweet
Producer
Croft
Region
Port
Grape
Touriga Nacional / Tinta Roriz / Tinta Barroca
Drinking
2028 - 2055
Case size
6x75cl
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2016 CROFT - 6x75cl

Colour
Port Sweet
Producer
Croft
Region
Port
Grape
Touriga Nacional / Tinta Roriz / Tinta Barroca
Drinking
2028 - 2055
Case size
6x75cl
Available Now
Duty Paid (Inc. VAT)
Case price £285.42 £302.78 (Inc. VAT)
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Tasting Notes

  • GDH

    Goedhuis, May 2018,
    Score: 92-34

    Croft 2016 is a very bright and lively wine, with hints of pomegranates and dark currants. This is a very striking and pure style of vintage port, bright and fresh, with complex herbal and fruit characters. A restrained style with lots of ageing potential.

  • NM

    Neal Martin, June 2018,
    Score: 94

    The 2016 Croft Vintage Port has a taut bouquet at first that demands a good 20 or 30 minutes to get into its stride. It eventually reveals scents of blackberry, bilberry, chimney soot, clove, and just a hint of scorched earth in the background. The palate is spicy and vivacious on the entry: black fruit, clove, white pepper and curry powder (almost like a Balti!) I love the personality imbued into this Croft, a Vintage Port that seems to be wearing its heart on its sleeve. Excellent. Production is 3,050 cases.

  • JS

    James Suckling, May 2018,
    Score: 97

    Extremely perfumed with dark-berry and currant aromas. Hints of earth and spices. Full-bodied, round and medium sweet. Hints of resin. Opulent yet restrained. Shows ripe and beautiful fruit with clarity. Try in 2025.

  • MJ

    Matthew Jukes, May 2018,
    Score: 17+

    With a little more foresty fruit and a tart finish, this is quieter wine than many with a tense thread of tannin from start to finish. This is another wine which will require a minimum of seven or eight years to soften sufficiently for it to be drunk.

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Producer

Croft

Founded over three hundred years ago, the House of Croft's first known activity dates from 1678 - the year of the first ever recorded shipments of Port wine. Originally known as Phayre Bradley after its founding partners and took its present name in 1736 when it was joined by John Croft, a member of an old family of Yorkshire wine merchants. John Croft was one of the leading figures of the Port business in the eighteenth century. The family returned to England in the nineteenth century, nevertheless the family maintained its affection for the fortified wines of the Douro and the late Percy Croft, who died in 1935, is credited with the famous words: "Any time not spent drinking Port is a waste of time." It is now owned and run by descendants of two old Port wine families, the Yeatmans and Fladgates. The place of distinction occupied by Croft and its wines is due in no small measure to its ownership of one of the finest estates of the Douro Valley, the famous Quinta da Roêda.

Region

Port

Port is made in the Cima Corgo, Baixo Corgo and Douro Superior districts of the Douro Valley in the north of Portugal. The summers are hot and dry and the climate becomes more continental as you move further east towards the upper Douro Valley. Here temperatures often exceed 40 degrees. The Douro Valley has steep hillsides with terraces, which is not only aesthetically pleasing but is also extremely useful for making quality wine. The schist soils aid in drainage and have become very important to port production, so much so that much of the Douro table wines have been relegated to granite soils. The six main grape varieties used for port production are Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Amarela. There are another 42 grape varieties that are permitted but these six are considered to be the noblest ones, each adding something different to the blend. After the harvest the grapes are trodden, often by foot but more often by machines, in giant lagars (troughs). Port is a fortified wine so during fermentation ‘brandy' (not actually brandy but a grape-distilled spirit) is added to increase thealcoholic strength to around 17-19 % abv. This leaves a sweet, red fortified wine with lots of vibrant fruit. There are many different types of Port from the Basic Ruby Ports, through to Tawny Ports and LBVs, to probably the most famous of all Vintage Port that can take 20 years to reach its peak. When mature, Vintage Port is a unique tasting experience with warm, concentrated spicy-fruit flavours and a superb length that just goes on and on.