In 1988, a Danish-American couple set out in a sailboat to find a place to start a family, plant a vineyard, and make wine...
and thus begins our story of Cortes de Cima Family Vineyards, one of Portugal`s leading wineries.
Capturing the abundant Alentejan sunshine in the vineyard, our wines are packed full of rich, concentrated fruit, and balanced by soft, ripe, tannins.
Painel de Prova – O Melhor do Alentejo - Revista de Vinhos – Dezembro 2011
Cortes de Cima Reserva 2008 – ”Aroma bem maduro, com frutas pretas, alicorados, fumados, cedro. Encorpado, texturado e robusto na boca, com taninos firmes, acidez viva. Muito bem proporcionado, sedoso e envolvente.” - 18 pontos
“Vintages can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards,” to paraphrase philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Synopsis: Harvest 2011, our 16th harvest. Another record winter rainfall. Record tropical heat in May. Record early start to harvest. Superlative summer and harvest weather. Harvest quantity – up. Harvest quality – above average.
For the second year running, we had an abnormally wet winter. From October 2010 to September 2011 there was an over abundant 1650 mm of annual rainfall, just short of last year’s record 1750 mm, nearly 4 times the average, and once again filling our damns to overflowing.
The 2010/2011 vineyard calendar ran 1-2 weeks earlier than normal. Bud-break was spotted 1st of March and flowering in late April. The weather during flowering was mild, assisting in an even pollination.
May was the hottest in Portugal since records began in 1931, with tropical nights and temperatures up to +3º above normal. The abnormal heat mixed with excessive rain, created tropical humid conditions, and posed an enormous challenge for us to fight a constant threat of mildew. Some grapegrowers in the area lost their entire crop. The remainder of the summer growing season was warm, dry, and without any great detrimental heat spikes, which can shut down the vines, and stop grape maturation. With the exception of only one brief but alarming wet interlude in the first days of September, the clement summer weather lasted throughout the harvest months,
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More...Our Cortes de Cima Reserva and our iconic Incógnito are our ‘Top of the Range’ wines, only bottled in exceptional years. Vintage 2008 was just such a year, one of our greatest vintages of the decade, with the growing season of dry, steady warm days and cool nights, followed by perfect harvest weather.
Our Reserva 2008 appears after an absence of 3 vintages without bottling a Reserva at Cortes de Cima. Rated with 90 Parker points, it continues in the tradition of our Reservas having always scored over +90 Parker Points. (Past Reservas are – 2004 – 91 points; 2003 – 92 points; 2001 – 91 points; 1998 – 93 points; 1997 – 90 points)
“The top of the range at Cortes de Cima and deservedly so. The wine is finely structured, with a feeling of restrained power. It has all the right elements of red plum, dry, dark tannins and prominent acidity, all in balance.” – 92 – Wine Enthusiast
“It is a lovely wine, seductive and caressing on the palate, graceful, focused and lingering, with reasonably ripe tannins….a wine that slithers over the mid-palate and seems quite enticing, elegant and ethereal.” – 90 ‐ Robert Parker
Winner of 4 Silver Medals, including 1 Best in Class (IWSC UK 2011).
Read the vintage note here.
The mystery name refers to a time when Syrah was not …
Barrel aging: 7 months in French and American Oak. 4.166 bottles (75 cl)
Solid, intense palate with vibrant, juicy fruit, some savoury notes, and a good balancing acidity.
Barrel aging: 5 months in French Oak. 3,400 bottles (75cl).
Spicy, ripe red berry aromas with a savoury fruit palate showing vanillan notes.
Barrel aging: 7 months in French oak. 3800 bottles (75cl)
This wine shows intense and complex aromatics, with some balsamic notes. A full, rich and concentrated palate, sweet fruit which is both dense and solid, great balance, length and structure.
Barrel aging:14 months in French oak. 3420 bottles (75cl)
An intense and vibrant palate, with lots of youthful fruit and subtle notes of well integrated toasty oak. Very elegant with good texture, firm tannins and balancing acidity to finish.
45% Aragonez, 45% Syrah, 10% Touriga Nacional No barrel aging. 109.000 bottles (75 cl).
With intense ruby colours and attractive ripe berry character. A fresh and young wine that is ready
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