The Winery Carmey Avdat of Negev

Winery Carmey Avdat - Barbera
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 32 of the estates of Negev.
It is located in Negev

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

Top Winery Carmey Avdat wines

Looking for the best Winery Carmey Avdat wines in Negev among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Carmey Avdat 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 Carmey Avdat wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Carmey Avdat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Carmey Avdat

How Winery Carmey Avdat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of quiche lorraine, chakchouka or fresh pasta.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Carmey Avdat

  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Carmey Avdat.

  • Merlot
  • Barbera
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Negev

Negev desert wine region of southern Israel is one of the warmest and driest Vineyard areas in the world. It Lies at a latitude of between 31 and 29 degrees North, on the fringes of the Syrian Desert. For a northern hemisphere wine region, this is remarkably close to the equator; just a few degrees closer and it would be deemed a tropical wine region. Negev only receives about 100mm (4 inches) of rain per year, much of which disappears in flash floods.

Modern computer-controlled irrigation is a necessity and water usage is understandably a major issue and is one factor why the wines of the region must reach a quality level to justify premium prices. Despite its unlikely macroClimate, the Negev has been a vine-growing area since ancient times. It may well have been one of the world's very first wine regions – if an area could be seen as such 6000 years ago – and has been enjoying something of a minor renaissance since the 1980s, though it accounts for less than 5 percent of Israel's total vineyard area. As demonstrated in the Judean Hills immediately to the north (and Galilee beyond that), high altitude is the viticultural antidote to low latitude.

Temperatures in the Negev reach great heights during the day but drop significantly overnight, which allows the vines some recovery time. High diurnal temperature variation is almost invariably a bonus for vineyard zones, but if the days are so hot and the nights so cool that the vines actually shut down, the chances of growing grapes with balanced sugars and acids are dramatically Reduced. Thus the quality demands of modern wine consumers have driven Negev viticulture up into the hills, away from the extremes of the desert climate. Even at higher elevations, humidity is low in the Negev, but the vineyards nonetheless enjoy a morning blanket of mist before the heat of the day sets in.

The top white wines of Winery Carmey Avdat

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Carmey Avdat

How Winery Carmey Avdat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of baked pumpkin, gratin dauphinois with smoked salmon or zucchini quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Carmey Avdat.

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Carmey Avdat

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Carmey Avdat

How Winery Carmey Avdat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style or duck legs with honey.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Carmey Avdat.

  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Liquid

Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Carmey Avdat

Planning a wine route in the of Negev? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Carmey Avdat.

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.

News about Winery Carmey Avdat and wines from the region

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St-Emilion 2012 Classification upheld in court

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The word of the wine: Liquid

Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).

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