The Winery Benegas of Mendoza

Winery Benegas - La Encerrada Vineyard Malbec
The winery offers 35 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 143 of the estates of Mendoza.
It is located in Mendoza

The Winery Benegas is one of the best wineries to follow in Mendoza.. It offers 35 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Benegas wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Benegas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Benegas

How Winery Benegas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of vegetable noddles, lamb with coconut milk or milanese escalope (italy).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Benegas

On the nose the red wine of Winery Benegas. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, plum or cherry and sometimes also flavors of peach, blackberry or strawberries. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Benegas. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Benegas

  • 2001With an average score of 4.39/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.24/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.22/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.21/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.15/5

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

  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Mendoza

Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.

While the province is large (it covers a similar area to the state of New York), its viticultural land is clustered mainly in the northern Part, just South of Mendoza City. Here, the regions of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley are home to some of the biggest names in Argentinian wine. Mendoza's winemaking history is nearly as Old as the colonial history of Argentina itself. The first vines were planted by priests of the Catholic Church's Jesuit order in the mid-16th Century, borrowing agricultural techniques from the Incas and Huarpes, who had occupied the land before them.

Malbec was introduced around this time by a French agronomist, Miguel Aimé Pouget. In the 1800s, Spanish and Italian immigrants flooded into Mendoza to escape the ravages of the Phylloxera louse that was devastating vineyards in Europe at the time. A boom in wine production came in 1885, when a railway line was completed between Mendoza and the country's capital city, Buenos Aires, providing a cheaper, easier way of sending wines out of the region. For most of the 20th Century, the Argentinean wine industry focused almost entirely on the domestic market, and it is only in the past 25 years that a push toward quality has led to the wines of Mendoza gracing restaurant lists the world over.

The top pink wines of Winery Benegas

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Benegas

How Winery Benegas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., summer orecchiette or my mother's rabbit.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Benegas

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Benegas. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Benegas

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc

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.

The top white wines of Winery Benegas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Benegas

How Winery Benegas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of sauerkraut of the sea in casserole, baeckeoffe with fish or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Benegas

On the nose the white wine of Winery Benegas. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Benegas. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Benegas

  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Discharge

In the traditional method, elimination of the yeast deposit formed during the second fermentation in the bottle.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Benegas

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Benegas and wines from the region

Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

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Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

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Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

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The word of the wine: Discharge

In the traditional method, elimination of the yeast deposit formed during the second fermentation in the bottle.