Winery CárdenasMeninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot
Pairings that work perfectly with Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot
Original food and wine pairings with Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot
The Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot of Winery Cárdenas matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of fast and or county soup.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cárdenas's Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot
Dark, full-bodied reds with tight tannins and inky colour, showing aromas of blackberry, violet, gentle spice, liquorice and mentholated balsamic notes. Contributes colour, structure and aromatic freshness to great Médoc blends (Palmer, Léoville-Las Cases) where it remains a minority. Also vinified as a single variety in Spain (La Mancha), California, Australia and Argentina. A late-ripening Bordeaux variety.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Meninas do Vinhedo Petit Verdot from Winery Cárdenas are 2018, 0
Informations about the Winery Cárdenas
The Winery Cárdenas is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in the of Rio Grande do Sul to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil's winemaking heart (~80% of production), Italian tradition. Recognised specialty: traditional-method sparkling wines (espumantes), fresh and fruity, based on Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, among South America's finest. Accessible reds: supple, fruity Merlot (plum, cherry), fleshy Cabernet Sauvignon, dense, tannic Tannat. Round Chardonnay, light Riesling Italico, sweet, floral Moscato whites.
The word of the wine: Ancestral method
A method of making certain sparkling wines such as blanquette de Limoux, sparkling gaillac or clairette de Die, which consists of a second fermentation in the bottle based on natural sugars and yeasts naturally brought by the grapes (unlike the méthode champenoise, which requires the addition of tirage liquor).
