The best wines of Lower Volga
Discover the best wines of Lower Volga as well as the best winemakers of Lower Volga and estates of Lower Volga to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Lower Volga and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Looking for a good wine of Lower Volga among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Lower Volga. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Lower Volga with technical and enological descriptions.
Want to buy a red wine of Lower Volga cheap or sell a red wine of Lower Volga at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Red wines from the region of Lower Volga go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef in a foie gras and chanterelle crust, sweet and sour braised leg of lamb or potjevleesch (meat in a pot).
On the nose the red wine of the region of Lower Volga. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak.
Russian vineyard along the lower Volga (from the Caspian delta to Volgograd), harsh continental climate requiring winter earthing-up of vines, sandy and loamy soils. Rkatsiteli (imported from Georgia, >1/3 of plantings) is the signature white: dry and crisp with citrus, green apple, white flowers, herbs and a mineral edge, taut acidity. Aligoté and Riesling also produced. Cold-resistant hybrids planted widely.
Historic specialty: sparkling wines and Soviet-era sweet wines.
Want to buy a white wine of Lower Volga cheap or sell a white wine of Lower Volga at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
White wines from the region of Lower Volga go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of suckling lamb confit with herbs, sausage and vegetable risotto with cookéo or venison leg marinated in white wine and grand marnier.
On the nose the white wine of the region of Lower Volga. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal.
Deeply coloured, powerful reds with inky robe (teinturier grape with red flesh) and tight tannins, with intense aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, black plum, spices, leather and balsamic notes. High acidity and fine ageing potential. Often made by the ancestral qvevri method (buried clay jar), it signs the great Georgian reds of Kakheti (Mukuzani, Kvareli, Napareuli). Also in Russia, Ukraine and Australia. Ancient Georgian variety.
Want to buy a sparkling wine of Lower Volga cheap or sell a sparkling wine of Lower Volga at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Sparkling wines from the region of Lower Volga go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of valencian paella, twists with anchovies or fish paella.
Sweet wine obtained by pressing frozen berries harvested in the middle of winter.
Want to buy a pink wine of Lower Volga cheap or sell a pink wine of Lower Volga at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Pink wines from the region of Lower Volga go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.