Colares is a Portuguese wine region centred on the Colares parish in the municipality of Sintra. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification of Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC). Located along the southwestern Atlantic coast, vineyards in the area are protected from the strong ocean winds by sandy dunes. In the 1940s, vineyards covered about 2,500 acres but have since been reduced by suburbanization to 50 acres. Between 1934 and 1994, only the local co-op could use the Colares appellation. Because grapevines there are grown directly in the sand, and phylloxera aphids cannot live on sand, Colares vineyards are some of the only European vines that are not grafted upon American rootstocks. The ungrafted Ramisco vines of the Colares region are some of the oldest in Portugal. The region is known for its deep colored, full bodied red wines that are high in astringent tannins.
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Colares is an appellation in Lisboa, Portugal. We track 13 of its wines in stock at 2 shops, from 0 wine houses, from € 29.43; mostly red, white.
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Lisboa
- In our wines
- Malvasia, Castelão
- Styles
- Red 8 · White 5
- Prices
- from € 29.43 · median € 65.22 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | warmdryso far +0.9 °C · 1,724 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 2025 | 1 | € 39.49 | € 39.49 | – | warm +0.6 °C · 1,935 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2024 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,833 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 2023 | 4 | € 29.43 | € 36.31 | – | hotwet harvest +1.0 °C · 2,014 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2022 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.5 °C · 1,898 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2021 | 1 | € 55.59 | € 55.59 | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,733 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 2020 | 1 | € 69.54 | € 69.54 | – | averagewet ±0.0 °C · 1,795 GDD · 183 % rain |
| 2019 | 1 | € 171.20 | € 171.20 | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,718 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 1,709 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2017 | 2 | € 109.99 | € 140.60 | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,843 GDD · 41 % rain |
| 2016 | 1 | € 171.20 | € 171.20 | – | averagedry harvest −0.1 °C · 1,776 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2015 | 1 | € 64.44 | € 64.44 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,846 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 2014 | 1 | € 130.00 | € 130.00 | – | averagewet harvest +0.4 °C · 1,877 GDD · 87 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 1,747 GDD · 64 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,776 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 1,900 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.1 °C · 1,818 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.2 °C · 1,835 GDD · 73 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,744 GDD · 97 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,714 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.9 °C · 2,002 GDD · 121 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,896 GDD · 68 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,797 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | averagewet +0.1 °C · 1,831 GDD · 161 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,652 GDD · 111 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,738 GDD · 94 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,736 GDD · 124 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | averagewetwet harvest +0.1 °C · 1,826 GDD · 143 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,721 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | warmwetdry harvest +0.6 °C · 1,931 GDD · 148 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,729 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.7 °C · 1,961 GDD · 55 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.5 °C · 1,695 GDD · 86 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.6 °C · 1,667 GDD · 186 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,704 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.1 °C · 1,772 GDD · 58 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 1,914 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.7 °C · 1,956 GDD · 93 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | coolwetdry harvest −0.6 °C · 1,678 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,868 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 1,647 GDD · 75 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,762 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 1,701 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,725 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.4 °C · 1,721 GDD · 74 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Colares's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.