The Winery Bin Nun of Judean Hills

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The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.3.
It is ranked in the top 96 of the estates of Judean Hills.
It is located in Judean Hills

The Winery Bin Nun is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Judean Hills to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bin Nun wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Bin Nun

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bin Nun

How Winery Bin Nun wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of wild boar with honey, veal tagine with preserved lemons and saffron or sauerkraut of the sea in casserole.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bin Nun

  • 2018With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.26/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Sangiovese

Discovering the wine region of Judean Hills

Judean Hills wine region – which is theoretically further divided into the Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and Southern Judean Hills sub-regions – Lies within the Samson region of Central Israel. The Judean Hills (or Mountains) form a low mountain range that dominates the landscape around Jerusalem and the West Bank. Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah also lie within the range, which formed the core territory of the Kingdom of Judah where the earliest Jewish settlements were located. Although not one of Israel's better known wine regions (like Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights in Galilee), Judean Hills is an emerging viticultural area, and significant potential has been identified for its future.

As the region's name implies, the topography here is decidedly hilly, with elevations of up to 1000m above sea level. It is precisely this relief that makes quality viticulture possible here, as the semi-desert of the plains below is typically too hot and arid to allow even the hardiest of vines to produce grapes with balanced sugars, acids and phenolics. This is to be expected given the continental nature of the macroClimate here in the Levant, and Jerusalem's latitude of 31 degrees North. Thus the Judean Hills are a fortunate exception in this otherwise desertous Part of the world.

There are very few northern hemisphere wine regions that are capable of producing quality wines this close to the equator, although attempts are being made in India and Mexico, and the southernmost wine regions of China sit on a similar latitude. Judean Hills vineyards enjoy more rainfall than those in the Negev to the south, and the climate here is characterized by Warm days and cool nights. This elevated diurnal temperature variation is the secret behind the wines' freshness, as it allows the vines to develop Complex sugars and phenolics during the day, then to cool down (and close down) at night, retaining vital Acidity. The shallow soils of the finer Judean Hills vineyards have a high stone content, which gives them excellent drainage potential.

The top white wines of Winery Bin Nun

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bin Nun

How Winery Bin Nun wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of cuttlefish in sauce, brazilian moqueca or apple pie.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Bin Nun

  • 2019With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.20/5

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

  • Chenin Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Bin Nun

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

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Bin Nun and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Oenologist

Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.

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