The best wines of Podravje

Discover the best wines of Podravje as well as the best winemakers of Podravje and estates of Podravje to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Podravje and the best vintages to taste in this region.

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Top wines of Podravje by region

Looking for a good wine of Podravje among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Podravje. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Podravje with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Podravje

Red wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef mironton, leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary or chakchouka.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Podravje

On the nose the red wine of the region of Podravje. often reveals types of flavors of spices, black fruit or oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or red fruit.

The best vintages in red wine of Podravje

  • 2020With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Podravje

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Vranac
  • Blaufränkisch

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Podravje

A wine route planned in the region of Podravje? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best red wine of Podravje.

Discovering the wine region of Podravje

Podravje is Slovenia's largest and most productive wine region. It is located towards the eastern half of the country, and Centers around the key towns of Maribor and Ormoz. With roughly 11,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyard, Podravje has twice as much land under vine as its western neighbor, Posavje. More than just a local center of activity, Maribor has Long been a wine center for this region of Europe as a whole.

Even today its vast Vinag wine Cellar is noteworthy, not only as one of Europe's largest traditional wine cellars (featuring 2. 5 kilometers / 1. 5 miles of tunnels) but also as a tourist attraction. Under the Hapsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian empire, the red wine from Ormoz and Maribor were a useful complement to the whites made in Austria itself.

Today, only a small proportion of the wine produced here is exported, much of it produced and sold in bulk. Over the last ten million years, the Pannonian Sea Dried out completely, leaving the Pannonian Basin (also known as the Carpathian Basin) in its wake. The erosion that took place over this period of geomorphological activity created hundreds of small, rounded hills with mineral-rich, free-draining soils – ideal viticultural land. The non-carbonate rock on which these soils are based is unusual, and a significant Part of the local Terroir.

Great white wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Podravje

White wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of tomato pie without tomato..., lobster and scallops on a bed of leeks or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Podravje

On the nose the white wine of the region of Podravje. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, non oak or earth.

The best vintages in white wine of Podravje

  • 2020With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2021With an average score of 3.80/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Podravje

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Furmint
  • Muscat Ottonel
  • Riesling
  • Moscato Giallo

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Podravje

A wine route planned in the region of Podravje? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best white wine of Podravje.

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

Great sparkling wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Podravje

Sparkling wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of bacalhau a bras (portuguese cod), fried squid or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wine of Podravje

On the nose the sparkling wine of the region of Podravje. often reveals types of flavors of cream, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, tree fruit or watermelon.

The best vintages in sparkling wine of Podravje

  • 2019With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 1982With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5

The most used grape varieties in sparkling wine of Podravje

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Blaufränkisch
  • Pinot Meunier

The best wineries and winemakers for sparkling wine of Podravje

A wine route planned in the region of Podravje? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sparkling wine of Podravje.

The word of the wine: Physiological maturity

The stage of ripeness of the grape berry when it has reached an optimal weight and when the sugar and acidity levels have stabilized.

Great pink wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Podravje

Pink wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of capon stuffed with morels, stuffed artichoke or duck pot au feu.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Podravje

On the nose the pink wine of the region of Podravje. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or non oak.

The best vintages in pink wine of Podravje

  • 2018With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.69/5

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Podravje

  • Pinot Noir
  • Blaufränkisch
  • Riesling
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Zametovka
  • Chardonnay

The best wineries and winemakers for pink wine of Podravje

A wine route planned in the region of Podravje? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best pink wine of Podravje.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Great sweet wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Podravje

Sweet wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of original francesinha (portugal), chantilly cream or cod brandade.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wine of Podravje

On the nose the sweet wine of the region of Podravje. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices.

The best vintages in sweet wine of Podravje

  • 2016With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5

The most used grape varieties in sweet wine of Podravje

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Traminer
  • Welschriesling

The best wineries and winemakers for sweet wine of Podravje

A wine route planned in the region of Podravje? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sweet wine of Podravje.

The word of the wine: Ancestral method

A method of making certain sparkling wines such as blanquette de Limoux, sparkling gaillac or clairette de Die, which consists of a second fermentation in the bottle based on natural sugars and yeasts naturally brought by the grapes (unlike the méthode champenoise, which requires the addition of tirage liquor).

Great other wines of Podravje

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Food and wine pairing with a other wine of Podravje

Other wines from the region of Podravje go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or chicken el diablo.

The best vintages in other wine of Podravje

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5

The most used grape varieties in other wine of Podravje

  • Muscat Ottonel

The word of the wine: Rancio

Odour and taste characteristic of certain wines that have undergone oxidative maturation, i.e. in contact with oxygen (vin jaune du Jura, dry rancio du Roussillon, maury, banyuls, rivesaltes, etc.).

Discover other regions and appellation of Podravje

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    • Slovenske konjice
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