The Winery Barkan of Galilee

Winery Barkan
The winery offers 128 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 99 of the estates of Galilee.
It is located in Galilee

The Winery Barkan is one of the world's great estates. It offers 128 wines for sale in of Galilee to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Barkan wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Barkan

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Barkan

How Winery Barkan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of navarin of lamb, lamb chops with figs and honey or croque madame.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Barkan

On the nose the red wine of Winery Barkan. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of pepper, black fruits or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Barkan. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Barkan

  • 2006With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2022With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.61/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Malbec
  • Carignan
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Galilee

Galilee is an administrative and wine region in Northern Israel. Its name is perhaps most widely recognized in the context of Lake Galilee, via its associations with the Bible, but it is now steadily becoming known as a wine region. 'Water into wine' is not a New theme for the Galilee region as the story of the wedding at Cana, in which Jesus turns water into wine, is widely thought to have its origins here. The Galilee (Galil in Hebrew) is located in the northern most reach of the couunty, with Golan Heights to the east and the Coastal Plains to the west.

The region is (unofficially) subdivided into Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee and the Golan Heights, with the latter confidently emerging as one the most interesting New World regions of the Old World. Lower Galilee is by far the smallest in terms of area under Vine, with just a small viticultural district around Mount Tabor, the iron-rich terra rossa soil of which bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Coonawarra. The vineyards of Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights are considerably more widespread, scattered over almost every Part of Israel's northeast corner. Thus the soil profiles vary considerably, offering greater choice to contemporary vignerons seeking out their preferred terroirs.

Among the soil types in Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights are free-draining gravels, limestone based and mineral-rich volcanic basalt all of which are found throughout reputable wine producing areas of the world. The landscape throughout Galilee is characterized by rocky elevations of well over 450 meters (1,500ft), with the landscape peaking at Mount Meron (1,210m/4,000ft) in the far north of which creates undulating topography. The cool elevations and relatively high rainfall in this area (for what is essentially a semi-desert region) allows for Grapes to retain their Acidity and therefor wine that is atypically fresh and vibrant. Very few wine regions at 33 degrees latitude are capable of producing wine of this quality – those that do are, like Galilee, reliant on high altitude to compensate for their low latitude.

The top white wines of Winery Barkan

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Barkan

How Winery Barkan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of home-made white pudding, duck stew with cahors wine or salmon and avocado chirashi.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Barkan

On the nose the white wine of Winery Barkan. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Barkan

  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.56/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.51/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.51/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.49/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Emerald Riesling
  • Colombard
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Viognier

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Barkan

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Barkan

How Winery Barkan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, shoulder of lamb boulangère or roast doe in the oven.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Barkan

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Mourvedre
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Muscat Blanc

The word of the wine: R-C (champagne)

Harvesting-cooperator. It is the cooperative which elaborates the champagne of its members from their mixed contributions. It gives them bottles on which they stick their own label. It is legal without being intellectually honest. When you walk around the Champagne region, you may come across signs that say "Vigneron récoltant" to indicate a member of a cooperative. You can always ask him where his vats and press are.

The top sweet wines of Winery Barkan

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Barkan

How Winery Barkan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or spicy food such as recipes of kamounia : tunisian beef stew or kimo (malagasy dish with beef).

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Barkan

  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Barkan.

  • Carignan

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Barkan

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

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

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