The Bodega San Juan de la Frontera is one of the best wineries to follow in San Juan.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Bodega San Juan de la Frontera wines in San Juan among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Bodega San Juan de la Frontera 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 Bodega San Juan de la Frontera wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Bodega San Juan de la Frontera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef with balsamic sauce, leg or shoulder of lamb with honey and thyme or stuffed eggplant (with vegetables or mixed).
San Juan is an important Argentinean wine-producing area, producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European Grape varieties. The wine region of San Juan covers the administrative area of the same name in the north-western corner of Argentina. The province sits between Mendoza and La Rioja, and is almost entirely contained within the mountainous foothills of the Andes.
In terms of production Volume, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region after Mendoza.
It accounts for 17 percent of the national Vineyard">Vineyard area with 32,274 hectares (79,752 acres) recorded by the National Viticulture Institute in 2019. About half of the province's agricultural land is devoted to vineyards.
Vineyards lie in a series of valleys across the center-west of San Juan. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.
Other subregions include the Zonda Valley and the high-quality Pedernal Valley.
San Juan Grape Varieties
Syrah and the ever-present Malbec are the foremost varieties in terms of prestige. In terms of vineyard area, red grapes account for just under 38 percent of the total, with white grapes at 26 percent.
The 2019 Annual Surface Report of the National Viticulture Institute recorded the main varieties.
Planning a wine route in the of San Juan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Bodega San Juan de la Frontera.
Wine grape variety of the INRA-Resdur1 series with polygenic resistance (two genes for mildew and powdery mildew have been identified) resulting from an interspecific cross, obtained in 2000, between Mtp 3082-1-42 (one of its parents is Vitis rotundifolia, which is resistant to Pierce's disease, mildew, grey rot, etc.) and Regent. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.
