The Winery Alterra of Central Valley

Winery Alterra
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 6562 of the estates of Central Valley.
It is located in Central Valley

The Winery Alterra is one of the best wineries to follow in Central Valley.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Central Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alterra wines

Looking for the best Winery Alterra wines in Central Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alterra 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 Alterra wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Alterra

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alterra

How Winery Alterra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, rack of lamb with antiboise sauce or rabbit good woman.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Alterra

On the nose the red wine of Winery Alterra. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Alterra. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Alterra

  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.08/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Alterra.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Carménère

Discovering the wine region of Central Valley

The Central Valley (El Valle Central) of Chile is one of the most important wine-producing areas in South America in terms of Volume. It is also one of the largest wine regions, stretching from the Maipo Valley (just south of Santiago) to the southern end of the Maule Valley. This is a distance of almost 250 miles (400km) and covers a number of Climate types. The Central Valley wine region is easily (and often) confused with the geological Central Valley, which runs north–south for more than 620 miles (1000km) between the Pacific Coastal Ranges and the lower Andes.

A wide variety of wine styles and quality can be found in this large area, from many different terroirs. They range from the fashionable (and relatively expensive) Bordeaux-style wines produced in northern Maipo, to the older, more-established vineyards of Maule; from the coastal plains of western Colchagua to the Andean foothills of Puente Alto. With experimentation so popular in the modern wine world, however, it is the newer, cooler-climate areas which are receiving most attention, with the emphasis on the Andean foothills and the river valleys tempered by the cooling effects of the Pacific Ocean. The Central Valley is also home to a variety of Grapes, but plantings are dominated by the internationally popular Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.

Chile's 'icon' grape, Carmenère, is also of importance here, just as Malbec is to Mendoza, on the other side of the Andes. The cooler corners of the Central Valley are being increasingly developed, as winemakers experiment with varieties such as Viognier, Riesling and even Gewurztraminer. Because the area covered is so large and the terrain so varied, the name 'Central Valley' on a label is unlikely to communicate anything specific about the style of wine in the bottle. Also, with a number of independently recognized sub-regions now in place (such as Colchagua and Cachapoal), most wines of any quality are able to specify their sub-region of origin rather than the Generic Central Valley.

The top white wines of Winery Alterra

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alterra

How Winery Alterra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of bare-assed cockerel (ardennes), sardines with escabeche or vegan leek and tofu quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Alterra

On the nose the white wine of Winery Alterra. often reveals types of flavors of oak. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Alterra. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Alterra

  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.26/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.13/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.11/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.05/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Alterra.

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alterra

Planning a wine route in the of Central Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Alterra.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Alterra and wines from the region

Chablis wines with Joe Fattorini in The Wine Show @Home

In this first episode of a series dedicated to Chablis wines on @The Wine Show @Home, wine expert and TV host Joe Fattorini introduces the vineyards and the wines of Chablis through a tasting of three wines: a Petit Chablis, a Chablis and a Chablis Premier Cru. #PureChablis #BourgogneWines #Chablis ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bray

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bray, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...

The Rully appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Rully appellation. Here the vineyard is planted on different hills which have very different gelogicial characteristics. It partly explains the great diversity in the expression of the Rully wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 20 ...

The word of the wine: VDQS

Delimited wine of superior quality. A level of appellation (today, barely 1% of French production) which constitutes the ultimate step before the accession to the AOC.

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