The Winery Alto Palena of Central Valley

Winery Alto Palena
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 5578 of the estates of Central Valley.
It is located in Central Valley

The Winery Alto Palena is one of the best wineries to follow in Central Valley.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Central Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alto Palena wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Alto Palena

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alto Palena

How Winery Alto Palena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braciola (southern italy), sausage and vegetable risotto with cookéo or duck fillets with honey.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Alto Palena

  • 2008With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.55/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • 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 Alto Palena

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alto Palena

How Winery Alto Palena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of alsatian sauerkraut, tuna catalan style or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Alto Palena

On the nose the white wine of Winery Alto Palena. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Alto Palena. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Alto Palena

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.45/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.39/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alto Palena

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 Alto Palena.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

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.

News about Winery Alto Palena and wines from the region

Ex-NBA star Tony Parker buys Château Saint Laurent near Avignon

Basketball legend Tony Parker announced today (17 November) that he has officially purchased Château Saint Laurent, which lies just to the east of Avignon in southern France. Financial details weren’t disclosed, but the move marks a new winemaking venture for Parker, a six-time NBA All-Star who retired in 2019 after a glittering career that also included representing France at international level. Tony Parker’s new property near to Avignon. Photo credit: Château Saint Laurent. Picturesque ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Fees

This wine is characterized by a pleasant nervousness and an overall sensation of freshness on the palate, reinforced by minerality, a note of bitterness, a hint of CO2, and of course an appropriate serving temperature.

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