The Winery Arca Yaco of Calchaqui Valley of Salta

Winery Arca Yaco
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Salta.
It is located in Calchaqui Valley in the region of Salta

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

Top Winery Arca Yaco wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Arca Yaco

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Arca Yaco

How Winery Arca Yaco wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef with mustard, light lasagne without béchamel sauce or lamb tagine with prunes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Arca Yaco

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Arca Yaco

  • 2017With an average score of 4.19/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.18/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.92/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Calchaqui Valley

Calchaqui Valleys is the most prolific wine region in Northern Argentina. It is also one of the highest anywhere in the world, with Vineyard altitudes ranging from 1500 to 3100 meters. As with other parts of the Country, Malbec is the key variety, supported by Cabernet Sauvignon and Torrontés. Merlot, Tannat, Cereza, Syrah, Bonarda and Moscatel (usually Muscat of Alexandria) are also grown.

The valleys still only account for around two percent of the national output, but the wines are well regarded for their concentration and balancing Acidity. The region therefore punches above its weight in terms of winning awards. The region is over 270 kilometers in Length, running north to South in a series of Deep valleys along the spine of the Andes. It is home to over 4,200 hectares of vineyards and more than 300 grape growers and producers, though no wineries are found here.

The zone spans state lines across Tucumán (accounting for just over 100ha of the total), Catamarca (over 700ha) and Salta (around 3400ha). The subregion of Cafayate Lies within the latter. Average vineyard Size is much larger in Salta, at around 12ha. That average is just 2ha in Catamarca and Tucumán.

The top white wines of Winery Arca Yaco

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Arca Yaco

How Winery Arca Yaco wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, vegetarian or aperitif such as recipes of algerian couscous, ham and comté quiche or aperitif puff pastries with vire andouille sausage.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Arca Yaco

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Arca Yaco. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Arca Yaco

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Torrontés
  • 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.

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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.

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The word of the wine: Cryo-extraction

This technique was very popular at the end of the 80's in Sauternes, a little less so now. The grapes are frozen before pressing, and the water transformed into ice remains in the marc, only the sugar flows out. As with the concentrators, the "cryo" can also increase bad taste and greenness.

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