Coche Branco Douro Rabigato Blend

Loved this wine. Petrol aromatics. So profound.

Unlike anything I’ve ever tried. Sort of a walnut and green walnut husk aroma- if you’ve ever smelled the strangely orange scented flesh surrounding the nut of native black walnut trees. Lemon curd and preserves lemons. Also a hint of liqueur. Then just a phenomal mineral spark. Humming with mineral energy. So flinty, like Chablis. And then a haunting, spicy, fresh use of oak. Long complex finish. Maybe the first wine I’ve tried that feels simultaneously oxidative and reductive. Begs for more age, but is fascinating, and drinking deliciously now.

Jeeze this stuff is incredible. Powerful and complex. Minerally, subtly salty and super super fresh. This is a lot of wine

Great bottle of Coche. Steely and mineral with salty tones as well. Drinks like great white burg.

The other coche!

2011.
First let me say that I'm a big fan of the Niepoort still wines. That said, I've always been put off by the name of this cuvee "Coche". It requires a certain level of hubris to compare your wine to one of the great white Burg houses.
It also sets it up to underwhelm the drinker, if they've ever enjoyed Coche Dury.
It's solid, and the oak treatment has some Coche-like characteristics, but it's not even in the same ball park.

I finally got to try the "Coche" from Niepoort. It needs much more time in bottle to integrate that oak...very well made, but right now it's pretty compact...built for age, not speed. I can easily see this go up a few points in 3-4+ years.

Lunch at Blackberry Farm, pt. 2

Цитрус, цедра, пряности, апельсин, мандарин. Тельно, полно, очень насыщенно, свежо. 17/20

2011 So far probably one of the best Portuguese white wine I tasted - so Burgundy like a real purity and delicacy ! A very good job done by the Niepoort team 😄