The Winery Castel di Pugna of Unknow region

Winery Castel di Pugna
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 121 of the estates of Unknow region.
It is located in Unknow region

The Winery Castel di Pugna is one of the best wineries to follow in Région inconnue.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Unknow region to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Castel di Pugna wines

Looking for the best Winery Castel di Pugna wines in Unknow region among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Castel di Pugna 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 Castel di Pugna wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Castel di Pugna

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Castel di Pugna

How Winery Castel di Pugna wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or poultry such as recipes of monkfish armorican style, osso bucco of veal or savoyard fondue.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Castel di Pugna

On the nose the red wine of Winery Castel di Pugna. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Castel di Pugna. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Castel di Pugna

  • 2007With an average score of 4.29/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Castel di Pugna.

  • Sangiovese
  • Ciliegiolo
  • Colorino del Valdarno

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The top pink wines of Winery Castel di Pugna

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Castel di Pugna

How Winery Castel di Pugna wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of flemish beer stew, roast veal with cider or braised (green) cabbage.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Castel di Pugna.

  • Sangiovese

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).

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Discover the grape variety: Ciliegiolo

It is believed to be of Spanish origin. Today it is very present in Tuscany and in many other Italian regions where it is often blended with sangiovese to produce the famous Chianti. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the father of the said sangiovese, its mother being an almost unknown variety called calabrese di Montenuovo. - Synonymy: ciliegino, ciregiuolo or cireguoli, aleatico di spagna (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!). - Description: medium to large bunches, cylindrical-conical, winged, compact, strong medium-sized stalks with very little lignification; medium-sized, round berries, skin of medium thickness, very bluish-black with sometimes purplish reflections, juicy pulp. - Production potential: buds early in the year, only a few days after Chasselas. It is particularly fond of not too poor hillside soils. Vigorous, productive and regular, it should however be pruned in relation to the fact that its base eyes are not very fertile. Sensitive to wind, mildew, powdery mildew, acid rot and grey rot. Resistant to drought. Ripening 2nd period late. - Wine type/flavours: gives a full and supple wine with soft tannins, rich in alcohol, of a more or less dark ruby colour with in some cases purplish tints. Aromas of cinnamon, cherry, blueberry, spicy notes, plum, fresh grapes, liquorice, tobacco, vanilla, ... .

News about Winery Castel di Pugna and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Drinking cheap wine need not be a cheap experience’

Annual domestic gas bills in the UK threaten to rival, in craziness, the price of a box of Bordeaux first growths. Those energy costs have sent the price of almost everything else ripping up after them. Is there, um, anything to be said for cheap wine? There is. First, though, we must sip the bitter harvest of alcohol taxes. These are high in the UK and higher still in Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and India; they tend to vary by state in the US and by province in Canada, and in general th ...

Sebastian Payne MW retires from The Wine Society

Having joined The Wine Society’s team in 1973 as promotions manager, Payne became the head buyer in 1985. He stepped down from this position in 2012, when Tim Sykes took over, but has remained on the buying team ever since. As part of his responsibilities, Payne has bought in every region throughout the years but, in recent years, focused mainly on Italy and Bordeaux. He was also instrumental in introducing wines from Eastern Europe and Greece to the portfolio. The Wine Society described Payne’s ...

Ten years on: Chinese wine’s breakthrough moment at DWWA

The prestige attached to winning at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) means that being awarded a Bronze medal for some wineries will mean huge celebrations in China, Japan, India, or Thailand. Since the competition began in 2004, I have often reminded judges on my panel about this – whether they are journalists, sommeliers, educators, Masters of Wine or Master Sommeliers. Scroll down for new tasting notes and scores on Jia Bei Lan vintages: from the Chinese wine label that won big at DWWA 20 ...

The word of the wine: Reserve wine (champagne)

Older wines, kept in vats or aged in wood in some houses, or kept in magnums at Bollinger. A small percentage of these wines are used in the blending of non-vintage wines in order to bring greater aromatic complexity.