The Winery Cottas of Duriense

Winery Cottas - 30 Year Old Tawny Porto
The winery offers 22 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 977 of the estates of Duriense.
It is located in Duriense

The Winery Cottas is one of the best wineries to follow in Duriense.. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Duriense to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cottas wines

Looking for the best Winery Cottas wines in Duriense among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cottas 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 Cottas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Cottas

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Cottas

How Winery Cottas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef goulash or cold vegetable cake.

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Cottas

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Cottas. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or dried fruit.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Cottas

  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Cottas.

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Tinta Roriz
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Tinto Cao
  • Tinta Cão

Discovering the wine region of Duriense

Duriense is a Portuguese wine region covering the same area as the Douro DOC and the Port wine region. In difference from Douro DOC, Duriense VR is a designation at the lower Vinho Regional (VR) level, which corresponds to table wines with a geographical indication under European Union wine regulations, similar to a French vin de pays region. Thus, it is the simpler or less typical wines of the Douro region that are sold using a Duriense VR label. Before the creation of a separate Duriense VR, the Douro vineyards were Part of the former Transmontano/tras-os-montes">Trás-os-Montes VR, which is now called Transmontano VR and no longer includes the Douro vineyards.

Donzelinho branco is one of the authorized Grape permitted to be blended in the wines of Duriense.

The top white wines of Winery Cottas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cottas

How Winery Cottas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of scallops on a bed of leeks, palm trees for the aperitif! or cod tournedos with chorizo.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Cottas

On the nose the white wine of Winery Cottas. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cottas. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Cottas

  • 2012With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Rabigato
  • Viosinho
  • Codega de Larinho
  • Gouveio

Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca

Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

The top red wines of Winery Cottas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cottas

How Winery Cottas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of thai beef skewers, tagliatelle with seafood and saffron cream or lamb mouse with figs and grapes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Cottas

On the nose the red wine of Winery Cottas. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cottas. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Cottas

  • 2008With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Touriga Nacional
  • Touriga Franca
  • Tinto Cao

The word of the wine: Wine library

Cellar in which are kept bottles that retrace the history of a domain, a vintage, an exceptional wine, etc., and which constitute a collection. It is also said of a place that offers a very wide choice of wines served by the glass. The oenotheques are more and more widespread in the living rooms opened to the public.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Cottas

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Cottas

How Winery Cottas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Cottas

  • 2010With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Cottas.

  • Tinto Cao

Discover the grape variety: Tinto cão

- Origin : Most certainly from the north of Portugal, it is a very old grape variety, present for a very long time in the Douro Valley where it is very often associated with other grape varieties to produce the famous Port. It can also be found in the United States (California, etc.), Australia, Spain, Mexico, etc.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cottas

Planning a wine route in the of Duriense? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Cottas.

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca

Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.

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The word of the wine: Wine library

Cellar in which are kept bottles that retrace the history of a domain, a vintage, an exceptional wine, etc., and which constitute a collection. It is also said of a place that offers a very wide choice of wines served by the glass. The oenotheques are more and more widespread in the living rooms opened to the public.

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