The Winery Finca La Escondida of San Juan

Winery Finca La Escondida
The winery offers 39 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
This estate is part of the Grupo Peñaflor.
It is ranked in the top 57 of the estates of San Juan.
It is located in San Juan

The Winery Finca La Escondida is one of the world's great estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Finca La Escondida wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Finca La Escondida

How Winery Finca La Escondida wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce, lamb curry or broccoli gratin.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

On the nose the red wine of Winery Finca La Escondida. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, earth or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Finca La Escondida. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

  • 2018With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.39/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Finca La Escondida.

  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Merlot
  • Bonarda
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of San Juan

San Juan is an important Argentinean wine-producing area, producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European Grape varieties. The wine region of San Juan covers the administrative area of the same name in the north-western corner of Argentina. The province sits between Mendoza and La Rioja, and is almost entirely contained within the mountainous foothills of the Andes. In terms of production Volume, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region after Mendoza.

It accounts for 17 percent of the national Vineyard">Vineyard area with 32,274 hectares (79,752 acres) recorded by the National Viticulture Institute in 2019. About half of the province's agricultural land is devoted to vineyards. Vineyards lie in a series of valleys across the center-west of San Juan. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.

Other subregions include the Zonda Valley and the high-quality Pedernal Valley. San Juan Grape Varieties Syrah and the ever-present Malbec are the foremost varieties in terms of prestige. In terms of vineyard area, red grapes account for just under 38 percent of the total, with white grapes at 26 percent. The 2019 Annual Surface Report of the National Viticulture Institute recorded the main varieties.

The top white wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Finca La Escondida

How Winery Finca La Escondida wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of chicken blanquette, smoked salmon pasta gratin or beef fajitas.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

On the nose the white wine of Winery Finca La Escondida. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Finca La Escondida. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

  • 2020With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.45/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Finca La Escondida.

  • Chardonnay
  • Torrontés
  • Moscato
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 pink wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Finca La Escondida

How Winery Finca La Escondida wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of tournedos rossini with port sauce, red mullet fillets in saffron sauce or pancake cake with mountain filling.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Finca La Escondida

  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Finca La Escondida.

  • Malbec

The word of the wine: Slight

Supple and easy to drink wine.

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Planning a wine route in the of San Juan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Finca La Escondida.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Finca La Escondida 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 ...

Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Slight

Supple and easy to drink wine.

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