The Winery Alexandra is one of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Thracian Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Alexandra wines in Thracian Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alexandra wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Alexandra wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Alexandra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of white cabbage with bacon, croque-monsieur with tuna or zucchini quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Alexandra. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal or oak.
Thracian Lowlands is a wine region in the South of Bulgaria. It one of two PGI designations for Bulgarian wine recognized for export into the EU. The other is Danubian Plains.
Both were introduced in 2007 as Part of Bulgaria's preparations for joining the EU.
Together they are responsible for around 30 percent of the country's wine production.
There are also 52 smaller PDOs (the equivalent of an AOP in France) but only a few of them are used for any great volumes. However a considerable number of traditional (dating back before 2007) geographic terms are still used by wineries.
Red wine grapes are to the fore in the western part of the appellation.
Leading varieties include the Bordeaux varieties, Ruby Cabernet, Mavrud and Pamid. Mavrud is very much an indigenous flagship variety for the area. Wine Centers in the west include Asenovgrad, Brezovo and Perushtitsa.
The zone is very large, and so general comments regarding wine styles and growing conditions are very Hard to make.
How Winery Alexandra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tournedos rossini with port sauce, roast pork orloff or rabbit with cider and apples.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Alexandra. often reveals types of flavors of oak, non oak or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, earth or black fruit.
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
How Winery Alexandra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions, steak tartare or rolled blue cord.
It can last for several years. The bottles are stacked in the cellars and waited for the light and heat. The yeasts gradually give the wine compounds that enrich it. A long maturation is a guarantee of quality.
Planning a wine route in the of Thracian Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Alexandra.
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
