The Winery Ochoa of Navarre
The Winery Ochoa is one of the world's great estates. It offers 36 wines for sale in of Navarre to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Ochoa wines in Navarre among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Ochoa 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 Ochoa wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Ochoa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of quick meatloaf, eggplant, lamb and goat lasagna or country-style veal roulades with risotto.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Ochoa. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, raspberry or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, violet or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Ochoa. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Navarra, in northern Spain, is one of the country's 17 first-level administrative regions (comunidades autónomas) and a fairly prolific, if lesser-known, wine region. Traditionally associated with the production of Bright, Fruity rosé, Navarra is beginning to attract attention for its high-quality red wines, mainly from the Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes, after years of being overshadowed by its southern neighbor, Rioja. The first evidence of wine-making in the region dates back to Roman times, but it is almost certain that Vines were growing here Long before that. It was recently discovered that vines of the prehistoric species Vitis sylvestris - the predecessor of the beloved Vitis vinifera - were still growing in Navarre.
After the Romans, vine cultivation continued under the Moors and then expanded considerably under Christian rule. The demand for wine was boosted by Catholics making the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage to the shrine (now a cathedral) of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, where, according to tradition, the remains of the apostle St James are buried. The 14th century was a period of prosperity for Navarre and the number of vineyards multiplied to the extent that restrictions had to be imposed to ensure that enough land was given over to cereals to feed the local population. Demand received a further boost at the end of the 19th century when France was hit by Phylloxera.
How Winery Ochoa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of stewed beef heart, shoulder of lamb in a crust or stuffed pumpkin.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Ochoa. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, raspberry or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or red fruit.
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
How Winery Ochoa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of shrimp curry and coconut (thailand), parmesan and poppy seed tuiles (5th meeting) or mongolian pot.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Ochoa. often reveals types of flavors of peach, lychee or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, tropical fruit.
An acid that occurs naturally in many wines and is transformed into lactic acid during malolactic fermentation.
How Winery Ochoa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of the coughing cat's apple crumble.
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Ochoa. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, peach or apricot and sometimes also flavors of honeysuckle, raisin or honey.
Its origin is not very precise, it has been cultivated for a very long time in northern Italy, ... in France it is almost unknown. It should not be confused with the Spanish variety molinera gorda.
How Winery Ochoa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or shellfish such as recipes of sauté of pork with cider, potjevlesch (northern france) or seafood pie.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Ochoa. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ochoa. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Sweet wine obtained by pressing frozen berries harvested in the middle of winter.
Planning a wine route in the of Navarre? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Ochoa.
The white Chardonnay 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 small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
An acid that occurs naturally in many wines and is transformed into lactic acid during malolactic fermentation.