The Winery Benito Santos of Galice

Winery Benito Santos - Pago de Xoan Albari&ntildeo
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 311 of the estates of Galice.
It is located in Galice

The Winery Benito Santos is one of the best wineries to follow in Galice.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Galice to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Benito Santos wines

Looking for the best Winery Benito Santos wines in Galice among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Benito Santos 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 Benito Santos wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Benito Santos

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Benito Santos

How Winery Benito Santos wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of fried rice noodles with chicken, quick crayfish chicken or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Benito Santos

On the nose the white wine of Winery Benito Santos. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, stone fruit or grapefruit and sometimes also flavors of lime, lemon or tangerine. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Benito Santos. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Benito Santos

  • 2012With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.74/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Benito Santos.

  • Albariño
  • Godello

Discovering the wine region of Galice

Galicia is one of the 17 first-level administrative regions (called comunidades autónomas) of Spain. It occupies the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, and is exposed on two sides to the Atlantic Ocean. To the South is Portugal, to the east Castilla y Leon. Viticulture has a Long tradition in Galicia, introduced to the region by the ancient Romans and continued by monks throughout the Middle Ages.

Today, Galicia is best known for its Rias Baixas wines - crisp, Aromatic whites made mainly from Albarino. Galician wines bear striking similarities to those of Minho (notably Vinho Verde), just across the border in Portugal. Shaped by the waves and winds of the Atlantic, the Galician coastline is spectacular; steep cliffs alternate with coastal coves called rías. The interior of the region is characterized by Green hills that rise gently eastward toward the Cantabrian Mountains, reaching heights of 2,000 metres (6,600 feet).

The top red wines of Winery Benito Santos

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Benito Santos

How Winery Benito Santos wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of meatballs catalan style, rabbit fillet with mustard or tunisian tagine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Benito Santos

On the nose the red wine of Winery Benito Santos. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Benito Santos. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Benito Santos

  • 2017With an average score of 3.54/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Mencia

Discover the grape variety: Mencia

Spanish, more precisely from the Duero Valley where it is still very present. According to some ampelographers, it is close to Cabernet Franc.

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Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Benito Santos and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Courgée

Name of the fruiting branch left after pruning and which is then arched along the trellis in the Jura (in the Mâconnais, it is called the tail).