The best wines of Letrina
Discover the best wines of Letrina of Peloponnesos as well as the best winemakers of Letrina and estates of Letrina to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Letrina and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Top wines of Letrina by region
Looking for a good wine of Letrina of Peloponnesos among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Letrina. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Letrina with technical and enological descriptions.
Great red wines of Letrina
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Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Letrina
Red wines from the region of Letrina go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Letrina
On the nose the red wine of the region of Letrina. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or black fruit.
The best vintages in red wine of Letrina
- 2003With an average score of 4.40/5
- 2010With an average score of 4.40/5
- 2009With an average score of 4.04/5
- 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
- 2014With an average score of 3.93/5
- 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
The most used grape varieties in red wine of Letrina
- Refosco
- Mavrodafni
Discovering the wine region of Letrina
The wine region of Letrina is located in the region of Ilia of Peloponnesos of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Mercouri Estate or the Domaine Mercouri Estate produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Letrina are Albarino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Letrina often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or black fruit.
We currently count 1 estates and châteaux in the of Letrina, producing 4 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Letrina go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Great white wines of Letrina
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Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Letrina
White wines from the region of Letrina go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of traditional flemish carbonades, hard-boiled eggs and gourmet muffins or norman mussels with cider.
Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Letrina
On the nose the white wine of the region of Letrina. often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
The most used grape varieties in white wine of Letrina
- Albariño
Discover the grape variety: Albarino
It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
News from the vineyard of Letrina
Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
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Rare Haut-Brion helps Prince Robert of Luxembourg cellar auction ‘smash’ estimate
All 818 lots were sold in the auction, which saw Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and CEO of Château Haut-Brion owner Domaine Clarence Dillon, open up his personal cellar to raise funds for the PolG Foundation. Featuring 4,200 bottles and covering Bordeaux wine royalty spanning more than a century of vintages, Sotheby’s said the auction ‘smashed’ its pre-sale high estimate of around $4m. Two 4.5-litre Jeroboams of Haut-Brion, one from the 1926 vintage and the other from 1 ...