The wine region of Valle de la Orotava is located in the region of Iles Canaries of Spain. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tajinaste or the Domaine Envínate produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Valle de la Orotava are Tempranillo, Teroldego and Albillo mayor, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Valle de la Orotava often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cream or stone and sometimes also flavors of pear, lemon or apricot.
In the mouth of Valle de la Orotava is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 18 estates and châteaux in the of Valle de la Orotava, producing 64 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Valle de la Orotava go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
Cult Wines partnered with Olivier Bernstein to offer the ‘ultra-rare’ jeroboam from the 2017 vintage via its new CultX digital trading platform. An auction hammer price of £57,000 ($69,000) was just under the pre-sale high estimate of £60,000. Cult Wines said the jeroboam set a new benchmark price for Romanée-St-Vivant grand cru and was sold for the equivalent of £14,250 per 75cl bottle – again demonstrating the strength of the market for high-end Burgundy wines. ‘Given the scarcity ...
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Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...
