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 8 years from vintage.
vintage1 yrs8 yrs10 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
Palate: abundant red fruit, good acidity, very delicate build
Varietal Tinta Pinheira, the grape the Douro calls Rufete, bottled pale and delicate with plenty of red fruit and good acidity.
What it pairs with
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Cured ham and melon
A pale, delicate red is one of the rare wines that does not flatten melon. -
Chicken liver toast
Abundant red fruit and low tannin flatter offal without clashing. -
Grilled trout
The Serra's river trout takes a light chilled red better than most whites.
Facts
- Producer
- Textura Wines · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Tinta Pinheira (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Drinking window
- 1-8 from vintage
Frequently asked about Textura da Estrela Tinta Pinheira
What is Tinta Pinheira?
The Dão name for Rufete, a pale, delicate red variety usually blended away. Textura bottles it on its own.
What does Textura da Estrela Tinta Pinheira taste like?
The producer describes an open colour with plenty of red fruit, good acidity and a very delicate build.
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