The Winery Cara Sur of San Juan

Winery Cara Sur
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Tremonte.
It is ranked in the top 73 of the estates of San Juan.
It is located in San Juan

The Winery Cara Sur is one of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cara Sur wines

Looking for the best Winery Cara Sur wines in San Juan among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cara Sur 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 Cara Sur wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Cara Sur

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cara Sur

How Winery Cara Sur wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of porcini sauce, sloth pork loin or rabbit stew the old fashioned way.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Cara Sur

On the nose the red wine of Winery Cara Sur. often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cara Sur. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Cara Sur

  • 2018With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.53/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Cara Sur.

  • Bonarda
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Carménère
  • Criolla Grande

Discovering the wine region of San Juan

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.

The top white wines of Winery Cara Sur

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cara Sur

How Winery Cara Sur wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or vegetarian such as recipes of homemade pork curry, meringue for dummies or magic cake cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Cara Sur

On the nose the white wine of Winery Cara Sur. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Cara Sur

  • 2019With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Cara Sur.

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Torrontés

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

The top pink wines of Winery Cara Sur

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Cara Sur

How Winery Cara Sur wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of spanish stew (cocido), lamb and coconut curry, african style or pakistani rice (biryani).

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Cara Sur

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Cara Sur.

  • Moscatel de Alejandría
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Malbec

The word of the wine: Cupbearer

Person in charge of choosing and serving wines. Old term for the sommelier.

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Discover the grape variety: Bonarda

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