Wines made from Petit Verdot grapes of Coahuila
Discover the best wines made with Petit Verdot as a single variety or as a blend of Coahuila.
More informations about the variety Petit Verdot
Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
More informations about the region of La Laguna
The wine region of Coahuila is located in the region of La Laguna of Mexico. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bodega Los Cedros or the Domaine Bodegas del Viento produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Coahuila are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Coahuila often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, spices or non oak.
What are the typical flavors of the Petit Verdot grape variety?
News about the grape variety Petit Verdot
Chile wildfires: damage to wine country as officials pledge help
Fierce wildfires in Chile have led to at least 25 deaths and destroyed more than 2,000 homes, according to government figures. More than 400,000 hectares of land have been burned, with damage visible on NASA satellite images. Julio Alonso, executive director for Wines of Chile North America, said forest fires in El Maule, Ñuble, Bío Bío, and Araucanía were affecting thousands of people’s lives and sources of work, including in wine. Some small producers have lost wineries and houses, he said, al ...
New Zealand wine producers begin harvest in the wake of cyclone destruction
Last week, Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the North Island and left a trail of destruction in its wake. Eleven people were killed, dozens more were injured and around 10,000 were left homeless, according to early estimates. Prime minister Chris Hipkins called it the country’s ‘biggest natural disaster’ of the 21st century, and damages are estimated at NZ$13bn (£6.7 bn). Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne are New Zealand’s second and third largest wine producing regions respectively, yielding a combined ...
‘Space vines’ trial on-track, says team who put Petrus in orbit
Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon ‘space vines’ that were fired into orbit alongside bottles of Petrus 2000 have been nurtured alongside their ‘daughter’ plants in western France, said researchers in an update on the project. ‘The first “space grapes” are now visible on the canes just a few months after the replanting phase that occurred in February 2022,’ said Space Cargo Unlimited, the start-up leading the project. A total of 320 vine canes spent more than a year on the Int ...