The Winery Animal of Mendoza

Winery Animal - Malbec
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Ernesto Catena Vineyards.
It is ranked in the top 937 of the estates of Mendoza.
It is located in Mendoza

The Winery Animal is one of the best wineries to follow in Mendoza.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Animal wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Animal

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Animal

How Winery Animal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of rosbeef casserole mamie, lamb delight with tomato and cinnamon or turkey blanquette with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Animal

On the nose the red wine of Winery Animal. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, black fruits or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Animal. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Animal

  • 1991With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.82/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Pinot Noir
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Sangiovese

Discovering the wine region of Mendoza

Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.

While the province is large (it covers a similar area to the state of New York), its viticultural land is clustered mainly in the northern Part, just South of Mendoza City. Here, the regions of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley are home to some of the biggest names in Argentinian wine. Mendoza's winemaking history is nearly as Old as the colonial history of Argentina itself. The first vines were planted by priests of the Catholic Church's Jesuit order in the mid-16th Century, borrowing agricultural techniques from the Incas and Huarpes, who had occupied the land before them.

Malbec was introduced around this time by a French agronomist, Miguel Aimé Pouget. In the 1800s, Spanish and Italian immigrants flooded into Mendoza to escape the ravages of the Phylloxera louse that was devastating vineyards in Europe at the time. A boom in wine production came in 1885, when a railway line was completed between Mendoza and the country's capital city, Buenos Aires, providing a cheaper, easier way of sending wines out of the region. For most of the 20th Century, the Argentinean wine industry focused almost entirely on the domestic market, and it is only in the past 25 years that a push toward quality has led to the wines of Mendoza gracing restaurant lists the world over.

The top white wines of Winery Animal

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Animal

How Winery Animal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of barbecued filet mignon, fish balls or vegan leek and tofu quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Animal

On the nose the white wine of Winery Animal. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, tropical or citrus and sometimes also flavors of peach, green apple or minerality. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Animal. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Animal

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 1996With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Chardonnay

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Animal

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Animal

How Winery Animal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of southern beef meatballs, tunisian tagine or cod and zucchini crumble.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Animal

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Animal. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Animal

  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Animal.

  • Criolla Grande
  • Malbec

The word of the wine: Lyon pot

A 46 cl bottle with a thick bottom, typical of the Lyon region, especially used to serve Beaujolais wines drawn from the barrel.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Animal

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Animal

How Winery Animal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of simple and fragrant roast veal, steamed pork chops or duck breast with honey.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Animal

  • 2014With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Animal.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Chardonnay

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Animal

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

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.

News about Winery Animal and wines from the region

New group promotes regenerative viticulture in climate battle

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Vine trunks rise to meet climatic changes

While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘Veteran wine books are by modern standards short on facts’

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The word of the wine: Lyon pot

A 46 cl bottle with a thick bottom, typical of the Lyon region, especially used to serve Beaujolais wines drawn from the barrel.