Portugal · Trás-os-Montes and Beira Alta Dual-purpose Intensity not published

Cobrançosa

also called Quebrançosa, Salgueira, Verdeal Cobrançosa

In a same-orchard, same-season comparison it produced roughly twice the total phenols of Galega — 803 against 416 mg/kg — at a lower oleic acid. It also roots easily and takes a trunk shaker, which is why it spread out of Trás-os-Montes into the Alentejo.

Dual-purposeprimary use of the fruit

Very hightypical polyphenol band

Fills when the library holds an oilcomputed, not authored

Olive grove in Trás-os-Montes and Beira Alta — a generated illustration, not a photograph of a specific grove

Reference card

Also called	Quebrançosa, Salgueira, Verdeal Cobrançosa
Main regions	Trás-os-Montes, Beira Alta, Beira Baixa, Ribatejo, Alentejo
Purpose	Dual-purpose — oil and green table olives
Oleic acid	70.0–73.1%
Oil yield	18–22% of fruit weight
Harvest	Second half of November, medium ripening
Designations	Named in four Portuguese DOPs, incl. Trás-os-Montes

Shelf stability is the published Rancimat induction time where one exists. It is measured per variety; smoke point is not, so it is not listed.

In the grove

Grove — placeholder

Fruit at harvest — placeholder

Aroma and flavour descriptors

1Green herbs
2Cut grass
3Olive leaf
4Dried fruit

General variety descriptions from regional producer associations, which describe aromatic complexity and a bitterness tendentially lower than Verdeal’s. No published panel medians for monovarietal Cobrançosa.

Ordered by how often each recurs in the published varietal literature, not by measured intensity. Our panel has not scored a monovarietal Cobrançosa oil, and no sensory panel data for it is published. 40 of the 40 varieties here read the same way.

Oils in the library No Cobrançosa oils reviewed yet

This shelf fills when the panel scores an oil made from this variety. 19 of the 40 varieties here are in the same state today.

Cobrançosa against the other Portugal varieties

Open in compare

Variety	Origin region	Used for	Polyphenols	Shelf stability
Galega Vulgar	Portugal — polyclonal origin	Dual-purpose	~416 mg/kg	Not published
Cobrançosa	Trás-os-Montes and Beira Alta	Dual-purpose	~803 mg/kg	Not published
Verdeal Transmontana	Trás-os-Montes	Oil	108–202 mg/kg in the published study	23.2 h and 26.6 h Rancimat in two consecutive seasons

Sources

Every figure on this page carries a source. Where we could not find one we say so rather than estimating. Corrections are welcome and credited.

Map · Trás-os-Montes

Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal · 41.5° N, 7.2° W