Cycling Ecopista do Dão One Way, full-day from Coimbra
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...
Structure
Drinking window
Best 1 to 5 years from vintage.
vintage1 yrs5 yrs8 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: fresh red fruit, vegetal touches
Palate: marked acidity, marked minerality, creamy persistent texture
Barrel-fermented free-run Tinta Roriz: delicate fresh red fruit with a vegetal touch, then a creamy, persistent texture behind marked acidity.
What it pairs with
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Lobster rice
A barrel-fermented rosé has the creamy texture that arroz de lavagante wants. -
Roast suckling pig, cold
Marked acidity and mineral drive handle the fat while the texture keeps up with the meat. -
Goat cheese tart
The vegetal note and creamy palate meet a warm chèvre tart halfway.
Facts
- Producer
- Textura Wines · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Tinta Roriz (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Free-run juice only, fermented with indigenous yeasts in used 225 litre French oak barrels
- Drinking window
- 1-5 from vintage
Frequently asked about Textura da Estrela Rosé
How is Textura da Estrela Rosé made?
Hand-harvested in early September, the must is free-run juice only and ferments with indigenous yeasts in used 225 litre French oak barrels.
Has Textura da Estrela Rosé won anything?
Tim Atkin MW named the 2023 Rosé Wine of the Year in his Portugal Special Report published in 2026.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão