Bodegas Santa AnaLa Mascota Cabernet Franc
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Food and wine pairings with La Mascota Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with La Mascota Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with La Mascota Cabernet Franc
The La Mascota Cabernet Franc of Bodegas Santa Ana matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with vegetables, potato and bacon omelette or civet of wild boar.
Details and technical informations about Bodegas Santa Ana's La Mascota 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 La Mascota Cabernet Franc from Bodegas Santa Ana are 2018, 0, 2016
Informations about the Bodegas Santa Ana
The Bodegas Santa Ana is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 171 wines for sale in the of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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: Reassembly
During the vinification process, a "cap" is formed at the top of the vats with the solid parts (skin, pulp, pips, etc.), which contain tannins and colouring elements. Pumping over consists of emptying the vat from the bottom and pouring the juice back to the top, in order to mix the cap and the juice and to favour the exchange and the extraction. This old technique allows a better exchange between the solid parts and the liquid.
