The Winery Ardilla of Maule Valley of Central Valley

Winery Ardilla - Gran Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Central Valley.
It is located in Maule Valley in the region of Central Valley

The Winery Ardilla is one of the best wineries to follow in Maule Valley.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Maule Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ardilla wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Ardilla

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ardilla

How Winery Ardilla wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of quick beef and cheese yakitori, lamb chops with lemon and herbs or valencian paella - family recipe.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Ardilla

  • 2016With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.60/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Maule Valley

Maule Valley is the largest wine-producing region in Chile other than the Central Valley, of which it is a Part. It has 75,000 acres (30,000ha) under Vine, and has traditionally been associated with quantity rather than quality. But this is rapidly changing – the bulk-producing Pais vine is gradually being replaced with more international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère, and careful winemaking practices are being employed to make some world-class red wines from old-vine Carignan. The Central Valley itself runs between the Andes and the Coastal Mountains from the Chilean capital of Santiago in the North to the up-and-coming region of Bío Bío in the South.

The Maule Valley stretches for around 60 miles (100km), and the Center of its wine production Lies 180 miles (290km) south of Santiago at a latitude of 35°S. Maule is further south than the Central Valley's star regions of Maipo and Colchagua. The large amount of land covered by the Maule Valley DO (Denominación de Origen) means there is a multitude of terroirs, from low-lying river valleys to Andean hillsides. Maule Valley was one of the first areas in Chile to be planted to vine, and its viticultural history stretches back to the start of colonisation by the Spanish.

The region has Long been one of Chile's most successful bulk-production wine districts, as evidenced by the large amount of Pais still found planted here. It has only been in the past 20 years that Maule vignerons have made a move toward quality, pioneered by the Kendall-Jackson empire of California, which set up a winery here in the mid-1990s. Despite this push toward modernity, some of Maule's better throwbacks have survived – the region is fast becoming known for some 70-year-old Carignan vines that are being used to produce Soft, earthy red wines with Richplum and black-fruit characters. One of the more southern of Chile's wine-growing areas, Maule is slightly cooler than its northerly cousins and has higher annual rainfall, most of which occurs during winter.

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Discover the grape variety: Negro Aramo

Its country of origin is Greece - it is related to the Greek xynomavro grape variety - and it has been cultivated for a long time in southern Italy, particularly in the southern region of Puglia, although it is known throughout the country. It should not be confused with aglianico, with which it has some synonyms. It should be noted that there is an early Negro Aramo clone. We can also meet the Negro Aramo in England, Australia, New Zealand, the United States (California, ...), ... in France it is almost unknown.

News about Winery Ardilla and wines from the region

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 ...

Chile harvest report 2022: ‘a challenging year in terms of climate’ 

Just over 6,400km in length, Chile is a country with a fascinating range of terroirs. This is fully reflected in the diversity of its wines. Heavily influenced by air currents from the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes to the east, all of Chile’s wine producing valleys have their own microclimates, as well as distinct complex soil composition. This variety means that individual vineyards experienced the harvest conditions of 2022 in different ways. It was a year that saw the continuation o ...

The word of the wine: Bourbe

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