The nose reminds me of blackberries fruit candy. To my taste a rather unpleasant sensation that unfortunately follows in the mouth, where the wine doesn’t show any depth of flavour. It finishes abruptly and without any aftertaste worth mentioning.
What a disappointment! To me this wine seems artificial from the first sniff. A far cry from the enthusiastic memory I had about it when I drunk the 2011 vintage in 2014, while visiting Porto. I cherished such a good memory of this wine that I recently asked friends to bring me a bottle from Portugal, which they were so kind of doing.
In the last 5 years something definitely happened, either the way the wine is produced dramatically changed or, more likely, my taste did evolve substantially. For sure now I have more experience and I’m much more focused while tasting. On the other side, the winemaker may be using some new enzyme chosen among the chemical products that can substantially influence the flavour of a wine.
This wine is produced by Prats & Symington. Bruno Prats ran the family-owned Château Cos d’Estournel in Saint Estèphe for 30 years before leaving in 1998 to pursue other projects. One being a partnership with the Symington family in Portugal, owner of Warre’s, Dow’s and Graham’s Port houses.
Prats & Symington decided to apply Bordeaux winemaking methods to grapes that were traditionally destined for the production of Port and they created Chryseia, which was first launched with the 2000 vintage and has been one of the pioneers of the resurgence of non-fortified Duoro DOC wines. In 2002 they introduced Post Scriptum as a partner wine to Chryseia.
Post Scriptum de Chryseia 2016 is a blend of 68% Touriga Nacional and 32% Touriga Franca. In Switzerland it sells for 25-30 CHF.
Back in 2014 I was so unaware of the fact that Portugal also produces a wide variety of non-fortified wines, that upon leaving Milan airport I bought some bottles of Italian wine to bring along. Back then I was surprised to discover that Port was not the only kind of wine made in Portugal, but in hindsight this is obvious: wherever grapes are grown, interesting wines are to be found!
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca
Type: Red
Vintage: 2016
Producer: Prats & Symington
Price range: Medium (15-30 US$)
Pascal’s Enjoyment Index: 2/5