The Winery Áster of Castille-et-Léon

Winery Áster - Finca El Otero
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Grupo La Rioja Alta.
It is ranked in the top 230 of the estates of Castille-et-Léon.
It is located in Castille-et-Léon

The Winery Áster is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille-et-Léon.. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Castille-et-Léon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Áster wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Áster

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Áster

How Winery Áster wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of rosbeef casserole mamie, lamb confit with new potatoes or rabbit with white wine and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Áster

On the nose the red wine of Winery Áster. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, floral or chalk and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Áster. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Áster

  • 2020With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2000With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2001With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.86/5

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

  • Tempranillo
  • Tinta del Pais
  • Tinto Fino

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Áster

Planning a wine route in the of Castille-et-Léon? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Áster.

Discover the grape variety: Himrod

An interspecific cross between ontario (winchell x diamond) and sultana - it is therefore not a pure Vitis vinifera as some people write - created in 1928 by A.B. Stout at the New York State Agricultural Experimental Station (United States). Its multiplication started only in 1952, it is certainly known in the United States but also in Canada, in India, in many European wine-producing countries, ... little multiplied and thus little known in France except by the amateur gardeners. The Interlaken which looks a bit like the Himrod, the Lakemont and the Romulus have the same parents.

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