The Winery Duque de Criptana of Castille

Winery Duque de Criptana
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Castille.
It is located in Castille

The Winery Duque de Criptana is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Castille to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Duque de Criptana wines

Looking for the best Winery Duque de Criptana wines in Castille among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Duque de Criptana 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 Duque de Criptana wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Duque de Criptana

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Duque de Criptana

How Winery Duque de Criptana wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of paella for dummies (simple and delicious), quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or tomato and goat cheese mushroom tart.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Duque de Criptana.

  • Airen
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Verdejo

Discovering the wine region of Castille

Castilla-La Mancha is a large region located South and east of the Spanish capital, Madrid. Inexpensive table wines are produced from a variety of Grapes. Higher quality wines are increasingly available, but the region is traditionally known as a source of low quality bulk wine. More than half of Spain's grapes are grown here.

Traditionally, only grape varieties that can tolerate hot, Dry conditions were planted. The white Airen grape is at the top of the list and remains the most planted grape in Castilla-La Mancha (and indeed in all of Spain). However, it is not a particularly respected variety, so many producers have expanded their portfolios. Red grapes dominate the rest of the range.

The top red wines of Winery Duque de Criptana

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Duque de Criptana

How Winery Duque de Criptana wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of millet with gruyere cheese, navarin of lamb or bami.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Duque de Criptana

  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Duque de Criptana.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Tempranillo

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Duque de Criptana

Planning a wine route in the of Castille? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Duque de Criptana.

Discover the grape variety: Airen

This is a very old variety that is still very present in Spain, and can also be found in Portugal, but is practically unknown in France. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A.

News about Winery Duque de Criptana and wines from the region

Adapting vineyards to a changing climate: Torres look to the future

In the face of rising temperatures and more frequent droughts, what can wine producers do to adapt their viticultural practices? Catalan producer Torres, which has emerged during the past decade as one of the global wine sector’s leading pioneers in tackling climate change, is experimenting with a range of creative ideas. Planting vines at higher altitudes is one option. The company is investing in cooler vineyards high in the mountains of the region. They have planted vines in Tremp at 950m in ...

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

Vine trunks rise to meet climatic changes

While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...

The word of the wine: Primeur (purchase in)

Purchase made shortly after the harvest and before the wine is ready for consumption.