The Winery Boccafolle of Calabre

Winery Boccafolle - Donna Elena Bianco
The winery offers 6 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 Calabre.
It is located in Calabre

The Winery Boccafolle is one of the best wineries to follow in Calabre.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Calabre to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Boccafolle wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Boccafolle

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Boccafolle

How Winery Boccafolle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of marinated mussels with maroilles, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or lebanese hummus.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Boccafolle

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Boccafolle. is a powerful.

Discovering the wine region of Calabre

Calabria is a wine region in southern Italy, in fact a large peninsula that juts out between the Ionian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is separated from Sicily by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its northern border with Basilicata is marked by the peaks of the southern Apennines. Calabria and its wines have undergone many influences over the centuries.

It was the ancient Greeks who first cultivated wine vines here. For many centuries, Calabrian wines were famous not only in Italy, but also in other European countries. However, their glory began to Fade with competition from French regions such as Bordeaux. These were closer, both geographically and culturally, to key markets such as London and Amsterdam.

The top red wines of Winery Boccafolle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Boccafolle

How Winery Boccafolle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, spaghetti with squid ink (italy) or lamb stew from my mum.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Boccafolle

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Boccafolle. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Boccafolle

  • 2016With an average score of 4.30/5

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

  • Magliocco Canino

Discover the grape variety: Gamay Fréaux

Gamay Fréaux noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 grapes of small to medium size. The Gamay Fréaux noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhône valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Winery Boccafolle and wines from the region

St-Emilion 2012 Classification upheld in court

Bordeaux’s administrative court of appeal has effectively validated the St-Emilion 2012 Classification after rejecting long-standing complaints from three châteaux. France’s national appellation body, INAO, said the decision upholds an original court ruling from 2015. It added the complainants still have two months in which to appeal the judgement, however. Legal challenges to the St-Emilion 2012 Classification have been a feature of the past decade in Bordeaux. INAO said it was ‘reassured’ by t ...

Vine trunks rise to meet climatic changes

While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.