Top 100 wines of Aguascalientes

Discover the top 100 best wines of Aguascalientes of Aguascalientes as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Aguascalientes and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Aguascalientes

The wine region of Aguascalientes is located in the region of Center of Mexico. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Santa Elena or the Domaine Santa Elena produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Aguascalientes are Malbec, Merlot and Tempranillo, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Aguascalientes often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, tree fruit or non oak.

In the mouth of Aguascalientes is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 17 estates and châteaux in the of Aguascalientes, producing 66 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Aguascalientes go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).

Discover the grape variety: Nebbiolo

A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Aguascalientes

wines from the region of Aguascalientes go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of baked dumplings, rabbit marinated with herbs and mustard or sophie's tuna cake.

News from the vineyard of Aguascalientes

Majestic rejoins Bordeaux en primeur with 2021-vintage offers

Majestic has this week announced its re-entry on the Bordeaux en primeur scene, starting with 2021-vintage offers on a range of big names, including First Growths Châteaux Lafite Rothschild, Haut-Brion, Mouton and Margaux. Its list also includes Cos d’Estournel, Palmer, Calon Ségur, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Cheval Blanc, Angélus, Canon and La Fleur-Pétrus, among others. Wines were being offered per single bottle or in six-bottle cases, all in bond, showed the retailer’s brochure. Fine wine m ...

Champagne houses announce ‘first’ with B Corp certification

The Champagne houses, part of the family-owned EPI Group, announced their B Corp certification after scoring 91.9 points in the assessment by B Lab, a non-profit network founded in 2006 with the aim of improving corporate performance in the spheres of social and environmental issues, plus accountability and transparency. The certification involves an assessment of the social and environmental impact of each brand through more than 200 questions concerning governance, employees, communities and t ...

Batailley 2021 release kick-starts Bordeaux en primeur

Château Batailley 2021 was released en primeur this week at around €26.5 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, level with the debut price of the 2020-vintage release. Batailley 2021 was being offered by international merchants at £330 per 12 bottles in bond, said Liv-ex, which described it as ‘one of the best value [Batailley] wines on the market today’. Some analysts and merchants suggested the Pauillac estate had set a relatively positive tone for the Bordeaux en primeur campaign over the next f ...