Vinha Maria Teresa Quinta do Crasto 2018

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Vinha Maria Teresa Quinta do Crasto 2018

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Vinha Maria Teresa Quinta do Crasto 2018

HED91930

75 cl

14.5%

£190.00

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Your wines and spirits will be stored at our specialist storage facility in Essex, just outside London. With over a decade of experience handling and storing fine wines and spirits, the facility maintains strict temperature and humidity controls to ensure your collection is preserved in optimal conditions.

Key benefits include:

One year of free storage when you start storing at Hedonism Wines.
Competitive storage rates: £15 per 12-bottle case per year, £7.50 per 6-bottle case per year, equivalent to £1.25 per standard bottle. Alternative formats will be charged accordingly.
Full insurance coverage for loss or breakage.
Quick and efficient delivery: Wines can be cleared and delivered within the UK in 3-4 working days.
Quarterly invoicing for storage fees to keep the process simple and transparent.
Easily manage your stored wines online, request condition reports, and track your collection effortlessly.
Flexibility to store wines purchased elsewhere, subject to our approval.

Storage Pricing

Below is a summary of our storage costs:

Service	Cost
Inbounding fee	Free
Withdrawal fee	Free
Storage and insurance - per standard 75cl bottle, per year	£1.25
Example: 12-bottle case (12 x £1.25)	£15 per year
Example: 6-bottle case (6 x £1.25)	£7.50 per year

Duty Charges

Below is a summary of the new duty charges per bottle as of February 2026. Please note that these vary depending on the ABV and are subject to change. Please get in touch if you require more information:

Product	Duty charge
Wine 12.5% ABV	£2.87 per 75cl bottle
Wine 13.5% ABV	£3.10 per 75cl bottle
Wine 14.5% ABV	£3.33 per 75cl bottle
Spirits 45% ABV	£11.47 per 70cl bottle

Transparent Billing and Rate Calculations

Quarterly Billing: Clients are invoiced quarterly based on the wines stored in the preceding quarter.
Pro-Rata Charges: Storage fees are charged on a per-bottle basis, and wines stored for part of a month will be billed accordingly.

How Our Storage Service Works

Purchase en primeur, under-bond or duty-paid wines from Hedonism Wines.
Enjoy twelve months of complimentary storage when you open a storage account with us.
After twelve months, storage will continue at the rates outlined above, with charges invoiced quarterly.
When you’re ready to receive your wines, simply request delivery – most orders are fulfilled within 3–4 working days. For wines held under bond, the relevant duty and VAT will be payable before delivery.

With Hedonism Wines’ storage service, both under-bond and duty-paid wines can be stored securely until you are ready to have them delivered. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our storage service, please contact our team.

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To arrange storage, please complete the Collection Transfer Form and send it to your sales representative or reserves@hedonism.co.uk. Our team will then guide you through the transfer process.

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The ‘Vinha Maria Teresa’ is a single-vineyard expression made from a small, historic plot owned by Quinta do Crasto, and it is named in honour of the owner`s grandmother, Maria Teresa. The vineyard is unique due to its very old vines, some of which are over a century old, and the diverse range of indigenous grape varieties planted there. This old-vine mix is a treasure trove of Douro`s grape varieties, which contributes to the wine`s complexity and rarity. The wine itself is a red blend, typically made from a combination of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and other local grape varieties. It is known for its exceptional power and elegance, with a great concentration of flavours, including dark fruits, floral notes and spices.

2018

Red

Quinta do Crasto

Douro, Portugal

Portuguese Red Blend

97 Jancis Robinson

The 2018 Vinha Maria Teresa, a field blend from centenarian vines, was aged for 20 months in new oak (90% French, 10% American). It comes in at 14.7% alcohol. Gorgeous, precise, powerful and just a little sexy, too, this is another great Maria Teresa. The brand has built quite a track record of late. Showing fine fruit, some mid-palate finesse and waves of controlled flavor, this then adds some serious pop on the finish. The tannins are not overly astringent here, but there are plenty of them, so this is not close to being ready to drink. Plus, from experience, this is a bottling that will acquire far more finesse, complexity and balance if you cellar it. Peak moments will come closer to the end of this decade than now. Could you drink it now? Yes, because, again, those tannins are not too hard but even giving it a couple of years would help a lot. Will you have wasted at least some of this wine's potential if you dive in now? Definitely. This has hints of greatness today. It mingles elegance, flavor and structure, but it has yet to put it all together. It was certainly better the next day. So it would be best to come back around the end of this decade, not its beginning. I'm leaning up on this gorgeous red. There were 5,970 regular bottles produced, along with 250 magnums and 30 three-liter bottles. As with most of Crasto's 2018 reds, this will not be released until October 2021.Mark Squires30th June 2021