The Winery 8Lunas of Castille-et-Léon

Winery 8Lunas - 8 Lunas
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Castille-et-Léon.
It is located in Castille-et-Léon

The Winery 8Lunas is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille-et-Léon.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Castille-et-Léon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery 8Lunas wines

Looking for the best Winery 8Lunas wines in Castille-et-Léon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery 8Lunas 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 8Lunas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery 8Lunas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery 8Lunas

How Winery 8Lunas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of daube niçoise, spaghetti with summer vegetables or pasta with veal stock sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery 8Lunas

  • 2014With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery 8Lunas.

  • Tempranillo

Discovering the wine region of Castille-et-Léon

Located in the northern half of the Central Iberian plateau, Castilla y León is the largest of Spain's 17 administrative regions, covering about one-fifth of the country's total area. It extends about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from central Spain to the northern coast. Just as wide, it connects the Rioja wine region to the Portuguese border. Red wines reign supreme in Castilla y León, and the Tempranillo grape is undoubtedly the king.

It is known here by various synonyms, including Tinta del Pais, Tinto de Toro and Tinto Fino. It is the source of all the best wines in the region, with the exception of Bierzo, which makes good use of Mencia. The other grape varieties are the French varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. The white wines of Castilla y Léon are much less numerous than the reds, but hardly less prestigious.

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Discover the grape variety: Plavac mali

Croatian Dalmatia more precisely. It can also be found in Greece (Macedonia), Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. According to genetic analyses conducted by the California University of Davis (United States), it is the result of an intraspecific cross between zinfandel (called crljenak kastelanski or pribidag in Croatia) and dobricic, another Croatian grape variety that is now somewhat endangered. - Synonyms: pagadebit veliki, sarak, zelenak (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!).

News about Winery 8Lunas and wines from the region

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Long Read: Biodiversity in the vineyard – looking to the future

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Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...

The word of the wine: Seeds

A maximum of four, located in the heart of the grape berry, they contain tannins and nitrogenous matter.