Winery RiglosGran Cabernet Franc
Red wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Cabernet Franc.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
The Gran Cabernet Franc of the Winery Riglos is in the top 20 of wines of Tupungato.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Gran Cabernet Franc of Winery Riglos in the region of Mendoza often reveals types of flavors of oaky, smoke or earthy and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, red fruit or tobacco.
Food and wine pairings with Gran Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with Gran Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with Gran Cabernet Franc
The Gran Cabernet Franc of Winery Riglos matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork shoulder with mustard, rabbit with cider and mushrooms or salmon and goat cheese quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Riglos's Gran 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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Gran Cabernet Franc from Winery Riglos are 2019, 2017, 2016, 2013 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Riglos
The Winery Riglos is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Tupungato to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Tupungato
The wine region of Tupungato is located in the region of Uco Valley of Mendoza of Argentina. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Catena Zapata or the Domaine Rutini produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Tupungato are Malbec, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Tupungato often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, slate or ripe blackberries and sometimes also flavors of gooseberry, boysenberries or nutty.
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.
The word of the wine: Tanin
A natural compound contained in the skin of the grape, the seed or the woody part of the bunch, the stalk. The maceration of red wines allows the extraction of tannins, which give the texture, the solidity and also the mellowness when the tannins are "ripe". The winemaker seeks above all to extract the tannins from the skin, the ripest and most noble. The tannins of the seed or stalk, which are "greener", especially in average years, give the wine hardness and astringency. The wines of Bordeaux (based on Cabernet and Merlot) are full of tannins, those of Burgundy much less so, with Pinot Noir containing little.
