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Prats And Symington Douro Chryseia 2014 750ml

Name: Prats And Symington Douro Chryseia 2014 750ml
Brand: Prats And Symington
SKU: 803285
Price: 54.94 USD
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Rating: 95 (4 reviews)

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750ml

country

Portugal

region

Douro

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2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Rated 95 by Wine Enthusiast

This is the latest vintage from the always impressive long-running joint venture between the Symington family in Portugal and Bordeaux wine consultant Bruno Prats. The wine is elegant and structured with nothing to excess. It has delicious black-currant fruit as well as a core of firm tannins. It is a wine for aging: ripe while so poised. Drink from 2020. ... More details

Prats And Symington Douro Chryseia 2014 750ml

Rated 95 by Wine Enthusiast

Rated 94 by Wine Spectator

#98 Top 100, 2017. A powerful and concentrated red, featuring kirsch, red plum and baker's chocolate notes, balanced by tarragon, slate and violet details. Elegant, with supple tannins framing the long finish, which is laced with hot stone, olive and licorice accents. Drink now through 2023.

Rated 93 by James Suckling

This red shows the Douro slate and granite character as well as blueberry and orange-peel undertones. Medium to full body. Chewy yet polished tannins and a flavorful finish. Very pretty and balanced. Drink or hold.

Rated 91 by Wine Advocate

The 2014 Chryseia is a nearly equal blend of Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, aged for 15 months in new French oak. It comes in at 14.2% alcohol. Like a lot of wines in this vintage, this does seem to be on the lighter side, but it provides fruit and flavor, plus some tension on the finish that allows those flavors to linger. Admittedly, some of that flavor just now is oak-related, but that will subside steadily. This should turn into a beautiful Bordeaux-like wine with mid-palate finesse and unexpected intensity in the right places. I was a little surprised at how much I liked this, given the very tough vintage, but it looks like a fine performance in an off vintage, the only question being its concentration. As with many wines in vintages like this, I do sometimes wonder if it will reward aging or thin too quickly, but right at the moment, this will make people pretty happy. Give it a year or two to settle in. It should be on the early-maturing side. This is going to be a seductive Chryseia in the short to mid-term. After that, we'll see where we are.

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Winery Prats And Symington

Region: Douro

The vineyards situated around the Douro river in Portugal are amongst the oldest in Europe, and the area has been used for cultivating grapevines for at least two thousand years. As such, this is a region where tradition is strong, and authenticity is key, leading to characterful wines of real quality and uniquely Portuguese flavors. Although the region is most commonly known for its delicious and aromatic fortified wines, wineries and vintners of the Douro also make still red and white wines of great quality, using the many grape varietals which flourish there. Several red and white wine grape varietals grow extremely well in the region, thanks to the long hot summers and mild autumns the Douro enjoys, and each is used to its full potential by vintners with generations of experience and expertise.

Country: Portugal

Portugal has been an important center for wine production ever since the Phoenicians and Carthaginians discovered that the many native grape varietals that grow in the country could be cultivated for making excellent wines. After all, Portugal has something of an ideal wine producing climate and terrain; lush green valleys, dry, rocky mountainsides and extremely fertile soil helped by long, hot summers and Atlantic winds. Today, such a climate and range of terroir produces an impressive variety of wines, with the best wines said to be coming out of the Douro region, the Alentejo and the Colares region near Lisbon. Portugal has an appellation system two hundred years older than France's, and much effort is made by regulating bodies to ensure that the quality of the country's produce remains high, and the wines remain representative of the regions they are grown in.