To Try, Buy And Put By

TO TRY: Roquette e Cazes, DO Douro, Portugal 2014, €22.95 down from €24.95 from O’Brien’s Wines shops and online at obrienswine.ie (91)

The Roquette family own the highly regarded Quinta do Crasto in the Douro Valley and have done so for two centuries. In 2003, they made an alliance with the Cazes family of Château Lynch-Bages and made a breakthrough red wine called Xisto. It was a stunning but expensive icon. Happily, since ...