The Winery El Coto of Rioja

Winery El Coto
The winery offers 40 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Baron de Ley Group.
It is ranked in the top 157 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery El Coto is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 40 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery El Coto wines

Looking for the best Winery El Coto wines in Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery El Coto wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery El Coto wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery El Coto

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery El Coto

How Winery El Coto wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of caramelized beef with onions, moroccan style leg of lamb or saltimbocca alla romana.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery El Coto

On the nose the red wine of Winery El Coto. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, cream or cherry and sometimes also flavors of oaky, citrus or smoke. In the mouth the red wine of Winery El Coto. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery El Coto

  • 1981With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1985With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1982With an average score of 4.33/5
  • 1987With an average score of 4.32/5
  • 1997With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 1970With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery El Coto.

  • Tempranillo
  • Graciano
  • Garnacha
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Rioja

Rioja, in northern Spain, is best known for its berry-flavored, barrel-aged red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha. It is probably the leading wine region in Spain. It is certainly the most famous, rivaling only Jerez. The Vineyards follow the course of the Ebro for a hundred kilometres between the towns of Haro and Alfaro.

Besides Tempranillo and Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan) are also used in Rioja's red wines. Some wineries, notably Marqués de Riscal, use small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon. White grapes are planted much less. In 2017, the vineyard area was recorded at 64,215 hectares (158,679 acres).

The top white wines of Winery El Coto

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery El Coto

How Winery El Coto wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of cantonese rice, patatas bravas (fried potatoes with spicy tomato sauce) or fillets of sole en papillote.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery El Coto

On the nose the white wine of Winery El Coto. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, cream or cherry and sometimes also flavors of grapefruit, oaky or tropical. In the mouth the white wine of Winery El Coto. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery El Coto

  • 2006With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2001With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.64/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery El Coto.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Viura
  • Verdejo
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top pink wines of Winery El Coto

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery El Coto

How Winery El Coto wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of daube niçoise, milk-fed lamb sautéed with saffron and lemon or home-made white pudding.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery El Coto

On the nose the pink wine of Winery El Coto. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the pink wine of Winery El Coto. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery El Coto

  • 2024With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2023With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery El Coto.

  • Tempranillo
  • Garnacha

The word of the wine: Vintage (champagne)

It is a champagne made from a single harvest. In principle, we only vintage the great years: 1988, 1990, 1995, 1996... We find more often, now, the very good 2002, and the 2004, a little short.

The top sweet wines of Winery El Coto

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery El Coto

How Winery El Coto wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of zucchini lasagna, marinated raw salmon ('gravad lax' in swedish) or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery El Coto

  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery El Coto.

  • Chardonnay
  • Viura

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

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