The Winery El Elefante of San Juan

Winery El Elefante
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of San Juan.
It is located in San Juan
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The Winery El Elefante is one of the best wineries to follow in San Juan.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery El Elefante wines

Looking for the best Winery El Elefante wines in San Juan among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery El Elefante 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 El Elefante wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery El Elefante

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery El Elefante

How Winery El Elefante wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tomatoes stuffed with sausage meat, salmon and leek gratin or zucchini quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery El Elefante

In the mouth the white wine of Winery El Elefante. is a powerful.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery El Elefante.

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of San Juan

San Juan is an important Argentinean wine-producing area, producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European Grape varieties. The wine region of San Juan covers the administrative area of the same name in the north-western corner of Argentina. The province sits between Mendoza and La Rioja, and is almost entirely contained within the mountainous foothills of the Andes. In terms of production Volume, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region after Mendoza.

It accounts for 17 percent of the national Vineyard">Vineyard area with 32,274 hectares (79,752 acres) recorded by the National Viticulture Institute in 2019. About half of the province's agricultural land is devoted to vineyards. Vineyards lie in a series of valleys across the center-west of San Juan. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.

Other subregions include the Zonda Valley and the high-quality Pedernal Valley. San Juan Grape Varieties Syrah and the ever-present Malbec are the foremost varieties in terms of prestige. In terms of vineyard area, red grapes account for just under 38 percent of the total, with white grapes at 26 percent. The 2019 Annual Surface Report of the National Viticulture Institute recorded the main varieties.

The top red wines of Winery El Elefante

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery El Elefante

How Winery El Elefante wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of greek moussaka, stuffed zucchini with merguez, beef and spices or turkey leg with dijon sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery El Elefante

In the mouth the red wine of Winery El Elefante. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery El Elefante

  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery El Elefante.

  • Malbec

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery El Elefante

Planning a wine route in the of San Juan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery El Elefante.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery El Elefante and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

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 ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Aggressive

Said of a wine with excessive, biting and unpleasant acidity.

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