Winery Cair Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, game (deer, venison)
The Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry of the Winery Cair is in the top 60 of wines of Rhodes.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry of Winery Cair in the region of Aegean Sea often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry
Pairings that work perfectly with Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry
Original food and wine pairings with Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry
The Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry of Winery Cair matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef à la mode (braised) or duck breast with honey, potato and onion with garlic.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cair's Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Knight Cellars Merlot Red Dry from Winery Cair are 2015, 2016, 2010
Informations about the Winery Cair
The Winery Cair is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in the of Rhodes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Aegean Sea
The Turkey/tr-aegean">Aegean Islands – the most famous of which are Greece/crete">Crete, Dodecanese/rhodes">Rhodes, Samos and Cyclades/santorini">Santorini – lie in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. The islands have a Long and influential winemaking history spanning thousands of years, but in the modern day are most famous for Santorini's Dry, minerally, white wines made from Assyrtico-based white wines made from Assyrtico. The Aegean Sea covers roughly 83,000 square miles (215,000 sq km) between the Southern coast of Greek Macedonia and Crete in the south. Several groups of islands make up the Aegean archipelago, including the Sporades in the North, the Dodecanese just off the coast of Turkey and the Cyclades near the Attica coast.
The wine region of Dodecanese
The wine region du Dodecanese is located in the region in Aegean Sea in Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Kounaki or the Domaine Kounaki produce mainly wines white, pink and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Dodecanese are Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Dodecanese often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, tropical fruit.
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The word of the wine: Guyot (pruning)
This is the most widespread pruning technique. It includes one or two long branches and allows the mechanization of a large number of vineyard operations.
