Winery Cavas HillOr Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo
White wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo of Winery Cavas Hill in the region of Catalogne often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo
Pairings that work perfectly with Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo
Original food and wine pairings with Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo
The Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo of Winery Cavas Hill matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker or real chocolate cake.
Discover the grape variety: Xarello
Most certainly Spanish, it is practically unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A2.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Or Penedès Muscat - Xarel-lo from Winery Cavas Hill are 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Cavas Hill
The Winery Cavas Hill is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 57 wines for sale in the of Penedès to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Penedès
The wine region of Penedès is located in the region of Catalogne of Spain. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Parés Baltà or the Domaine Enric Soler produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Penedès are Xarello, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Penedès often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red cherry or bergamot and sometimes also flavors of chamomile, earl grey tea or eucalyptus.
The wine region of Catalogne
Catalonia (Catalunya in Catalan and Cataluña in Spanish) is an autonomous community in the Northeast of Spain. It extends from the historic county (comarca) of Montsia in the South to the border with France in the north. The Mediterranean Sea forms its eastern border and offers 580 km of coastline. The Catalunya D.
The word of the wine: White winemaking
White wines are obtained by fermentation of the juice after pressing. A pre-fermentation maceration is sometimes practiced to extract the aromatic substances from the skins. White wines are normally made from white grapes, but can also be made from red grapes (blanc de noirs). The grapes are then pressed as soon as they arrive at the vat house without maceration in order to prevent the colouring matter contained in the skins from "staining" the wine.
