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Red Wine
Post Scriptum de Chryseia
2022, 75cl
Douro

16,89
approx. £14.12

 14%

 2024-2034

 Serve at 16º-18º

 Bordeaux

97/100  Wine Spectator

18/20  Revista de Vinhos

 

O Produtor, tasting note published in November 27th 2023

Expressive. Fresh. Refined. The Post Scriptum is the partner wine to Chryseia. Drawn from the same vineyards, its profile is similar, with expressive, fresh, and concentrated fruit paired with exquisite balance and elegance. It is lightly oaked and more approachable at a young age.

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Post Scriptum de Chryseia

Made from a second selection of the wines produced for Chryseia, Post Scriptum de Chryseia is characterized by upfront fruit and soft tannins with finesse and balance.

The year 2022 saw an unprecedented string of heatwaves in the months leading up to the harvest. However, very few vines showed any signs of hydric stress – a testament to their resilience and adaptability to harsh conditions.

Origin and Grape Varieties: Quinta de Roriz and Quinta da Perdiz, Douro – Cima Corgo. Touriga Nacional50%, Touriga Franca 40%, and Tinta Roriz 10%.

Vinification: The grapes are sorted by hand before undergoing destemming and an automated berry selection process. They are then gently crushed before being transferred to the fermentation vats where they are inoculated with a specially selected yeast culture and fermented at 25°C. During fermentation, the wines are gently macerated to produce a wine ready for immediate consumption but with great potential for bottle aging.

Ageing: 12 months in 400L French oak barrels (second and third year).

Winemaking Team: Bruno Prats, Charles Symington, Pedro Correia, and Miguel Bessa.

Cellaring and Consumption: Ready to drink, although it has a high potential to evolve favorably in the bottle.

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

SKU: 100295

Prats & Symington

A World Heritage site and one of the oldest established wine-producing regions in the world, the Douro valley is, without doubt, one of the most distinctive terroirs in the history of world viticulture.

Great wines can only exist if there are people fortunate enough to appreciate them. There can be no doubt that the English aristocracy played an important role in the development of the Port wine vineyards, just as they did in Bordeaux, most notably with the Médoc Crus Classés.

The wines of the Douro, cultivated in an inhospitable climate under a scorching sun, with their low acidity and high residual sugar levels, were always difficult to transport. It was for this reason that the region invented fortification, a process which involves adding brandy to the wine before fermentation is complete, providing the Port with its distinctive alcohol-sugar balance, together with a remarkable potential for ageing. In addition, the process requires the rapid and energetic extraction of tannins by the traditional method of treading or, in more recent years, using mechanical presses.

Whilst the art of creating Port wine was being perfected, Bordeaux – another region with a talent for satisfying the thirst of the English – was inventing vinification using a process of prolonged maceration, allowing for the gradual and gentle extraction of tannins. This gave rise to the balance and finesse of the great Médocs.

The attempt to apply Bordeaux wine-making methods to grapes which are traditionally destined for the production of vintage Port is the essence of the exciting CHRYSEIA project.

The SYMINGTON family aimed to ally its extensive knowledge of the different Douro terroirs and grape varieties to the experience of Bruno PRATS in the Bordeaux region so that together they could produce wine from the best grapes grown on the best plots on the best estates, in true Bordeaux spirit.

Andrew James Symington first became established in the city of Porto in 1882. He quickly became a Port wine shipper and in 1914 assumed control of Warre’s. The descendants of his three sons are nowadays the owners of Warre’s, Dow’s and Graham’s, in addition to numerous estates which include some of the best in the Cima Corgo. The family’s vineyard holdings in the Douro now exceed 900 hectares. Charles Symington is responsible for the vineyards, vinification and production management, whilst Rupert, Paul, John and Dominic travel all over the world sharing the magic and secrets of their wines.

After the sale of the Château Cos d’Estournel which he had managed for thirty years, Bruno Prats turned his wine growing activities to Viña Aquitania in Chile where he established a partnership with Paul Pontallier, Ghislain de Montgolfier and Felipe de Solminihac, and to Anwilka in South Africa, in partnership with Lowell Jooste and Hubert de Bouard de Laforest. The friendship between Bruno Prats and the Symington family was developed through the family winery network Primum Familiae Vini, to which Cos d’Estournel also belonged.

In November 1998, the Symington family proposed that Bruno Prats should take part in a new project to produce a top quality, non-fortified Douro wine. This proposal took shape in 1999 with the creation of PRATS & SYMINGTON Limitada as an equal partnership between the two families. Experimental production in this first year enabled the best plots and most suitable grape varieties for the project to be selected. The CHRYSEIA 2000 was the first vintage to be released.

Address

Prats & Symington, Lda.
Quinta de Roriz
São João da Pesqueira
5130-113 Ervedosa do Douro
Portugal

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