The Winery Balanches of Alentejo of Alentejano

Winery Balanches - Mertola Branco
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 48 of the estates of Alentejano.
It is located in Alentejo in the region of Alentejano

The Winery Balanches is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Alentejo to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Balanches wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Balanches

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Balanches

How Winery Balanches wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, pork or shellfish such as recipes of lasagne bolognaise (mascarpone), endive frichti or baeckeoffe with fish.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Balanches

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The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Balanches

  • 2017With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5

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

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Discovering the wine region of Alentejo

The wine region of Alentejo is located in the region of Alentejano of Portugal. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Cartuxa or the Domaine Adega Mayor produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Alentejo are Touriga nacional, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Touriga franca, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Alentejo often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, dill or raspberry and sometimes also flavors of cocoa, black currant or iron.

In the mouth of Alentejo is a powerful. We currently count 295 estates and châteaux in the of Alentejo, producing 1163 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Alentejo go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal.

The top red wines of Winery Balanches

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Balanches

How Winery Balanches wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of daube niçoise, lebanese lamb meatball or stuffed red mullet ballotines.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Balanches

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Balanches. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Balanches

  • 2018With an average score of 4.33/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5

Discover the grape variety: Franc de Haute-Saône

Franc noir de Haute-Saône noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Haute-Saône). 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. The Franc noir de Haute-Saône black can be found cultivated in these vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Balanches

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

Discover the grape variety: Crescent

A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

News about Winery Balanches and wines from the region

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

Saving La Palma’s special vine heritage

On 19 September 2021, the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge in the island of La Palma, Spain began a massive, three-month long eruption, that was a catastrophic event for this westward island in the Canarias. The volcanic fumes caused breathing problems as well as the cancellation of flights and fruit harvests, including grapes. Despite 7,000 people needing evacuation from the flow of the lava, there was only one fatality during the entire eruption. As the lava flow eventually covered over 1,000ha, mo ...

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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