The Winery Finca de Zalameña of Castille

Winery Finca de Zalameña - Airen - Macabeo
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
This estate is part of the Bodegas Verduguez.
It is ranked in the top 1764 of the estates of Castille.
It is located in Castille

The Winery Finca de Zalameña is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Castille to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Finca de Zalameña wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Finca de Zalameña

How Winery Finca de Zalameña wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of basque piperade, pumpkin and tuna gratin or ham and comté quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña.

  • Macabeo
  • Airen
  • Chardonnay
  • Moscatel

Discovering the wine region of Castille

Castilla-La Mancha is a large region located South and east of the Spanish capital, Madrid. Inexpensive table wines are produced from a variety of Grapes. Higher quality wines are increasingly available, but the region is traditionally known as a source of low quality bulk wine. More than half of Spain's grapes are grown here.

Traditionally, only grape varieties that can tolerate hot, Dry conditions were planted. The white Airen grape is at the top of the list and remains the most planted grape in Castilla-La Mancha (and indeed in all of Spain). However, it is not a particularly respected variety, so many producers have expanded their portfolios. Red grapes dominate the rest of the range.

The top red wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Finca de Zalameña

How Winery Finca de Zalameña wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of small stuffed fish from nice, lamb chops with tarragon cream or chicken and onion quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

On the nose the red wine of Winery Finca de Zalameña. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Finca de Zalameña. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.44/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Tempranillo

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top pink wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Finca de Zalameña

How Winery Finca de Zalameña wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of pork shoulder with mustard, lamb chops with tarragon cream or ham with leek fondue.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña

  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Finca de Zalameña.

  • Tempranillo

The word of the wine: Residual sugars

Sugars not transformed into alcohol and naturally present in the wine. The perception of residual sugars is conditioned by the acidity of the wine. The more acidic the wine is, the less sweet it will seem, given the same amount of sugar.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Finca de Zalameña

Planning a wine route in the of Castille? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Finca de Zalameña.

Discover the grape variety: Airen

This is a very old variety that is still very present in Spain, and can also be found in Portugal, but is practically unknown in France. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A.

News about Winery Finca de Zalameña and wines from the region

Northern Rhône 2020: full report and top-scoring wines

Northern Rhône 2020 overall rating: 4.5/5 A reliably fresh, balanced and approachable vintage – a return to classicism after a series of powerful years. Excellent white wines. Northern Rhône 2020 red wine of the vintage: Domaine Rostaing, La Côte Brune, Côte-Rôtie  2020 Northern Rhône 2020 white wine of the vintage: Domaine JL Chave, Hermitage 2020 The main features of the year were drought, heat and a very early harvest. Thankfully there were heavy rains in October, November and December 2019 w ...

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 ...

Bordeaux 2021 en primeur campaign delivered ‘predictable chaos’ and ‘pitiful revenues’

Anecdotal evidence suggests that sales decreased significantly compared to the previous year, with volume and value sales down by as much as 60% in a few cases. In some instances, sales of usually bankable wines crashed to almost zero, according to the merchants that Liv-Ex polled. ‘Yet again, many buyers and collectors have had to ask what purpose the time-consuming event serves when it delivers such pitiful revenue, and who precisely it is for when it offers little compelling value,’ said Liv- ...

The word of the wine: Residual sugars

Sugars not transformed into alcohol and naturally present in the wine. The perception of residual sugars is conditioned by the acidity of the wine. The more acidic the wine is, the less sweet it will seem, given the same amount of sugar.