The Winery Familia Caruso of La Rioja

Winery Familia Caruso - Extra Brut
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 82 of the estates of La Rioja.
It is located in La Rioja

The Winery Familia Caruso is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of La Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Familia Caruso wines

Looking for the best Winery Familia Caruso wines in La Rioja among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Familia Caruso 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 Familia Caruso wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Familia Caruso

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Familia Caruso

How Winery Familia Caruso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Familia Caruso

  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5

Discovering the wine region of La Rioja

La Rioja is a wine region in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in western Argentina, North of Mendoza and San Juan. Unlike its Spanish namesake, it has traditionally been associated most closely with white wines. The mountainous Terroir of the region is particularly suited to the Torrontés Riojano variety, which produces Fruity, Soft, Aromatic whites. Bonarda, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec can also be found growing throughout the region.

Locals argue that La Rioja was one of the first Argentinian regions to have vines Planted in it, and Spanish settlers in the late 16th Century are widely credited with being the first to plant grapes here. La Rioja was named for the northern Spanish region by Juan Ramirez de Velasco, a native of the latter. This has caused some animosity between the two regions. In 2011, the Argentinian province won a court case allowing it to continue to label its wines as 'La Rioja Argentina'.

Vineyard conditions in La Rioja La Rioja's position in the rain shadow of the Andes range means that wine-producing areas are strictly governed by access to water. As a result, vineyard distribution is scattered. There is a single main production area in the Famatina Valley, which sits in the mesoclimate formed by the Sierra de Velasco and the Sierra de Famatina mountain ranges. Some small vineyard areas can also be found around the towns of Nonogasta and Villa Union.

The top red wines of Winery Familia Caruso

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Familia Caruso

How Winery Familia Caruso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of lisbon veal sauté, beef tagine with vegetables or candied gizzards.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Familia Caruso

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Familia Caruso. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Familia Caruso

  • 2015With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Bonarda
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec

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.

The top white wines of Winery Familia Caruso

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Familia Caruso

How Winery Familia Caruso wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, vegetarian or aperitif such as recipes of californian sushi (reverse maki), magic cake cheese quiche or beet hummus dip.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Familia Caruso

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Familia Caruso.

  • Torrontés

The word of the wine: Vinosity

When tasting a red wine, a pleasant sensation on the palate with a fruity and sappy character in harmony with a caressing and persistent presence of tannins.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Familia Caruso

Planning a wine route in the of La Rioja? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Familia Caruso.

Discover the grape variety: Calabrese

Most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very well known. It should be noted that a certain number of Italian grape varieties bear the synonym or name "calabrese", whether or not followed by an epithet, and care should be taken not to confuse them. Calabrese is also known in the United States, Italy, Bulgaria and Malta. In France, it is virtually absent from the vineyard, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Familia Caruso 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 ...

First single-vineyard Rioja sparkling wine released

It had been possible to produce sparkling wines in Rioja, certified as DO Cava, since the creation of Spain’s main sparkling wine entity. But this fact was often unknown to consumers given that 95% of Cava is produced in the Catalunya region. The area for production of Cava in Rioja is however limited to only 18 of the nearly 150 municipalities within the entire DO zone. In a bid to better show point of origin, the new subzone labelling of Cava that was approved in 2021 now refers to the p ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

The word of the wine: Vinosity

When tasting a red wine, a pleasant sensation on the palate with a fruity and sappy character in harmony with a caressing and persistent presence of tannins.

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