The Winery Fornos of Galice

Winery Fornos - Valdeorras  Mencia
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 2016 of the estates of Galice.
It is located in Galice

The Winery Fornos is one of the best wineries to follow in Galice.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Galice to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fornos wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Fornos

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fornos

How Winery Fornos wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of chicken with rice for cookeo robot, rabbit with beer or wiener schnitzel or viennese schnitzel.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Fornos

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Fornos. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

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

  • Mencia

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 white wines of Winery Fornos

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fornos

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

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

  • Godello

Discover the grape variety: Hibou blanc

A very old grape variety once cultivated in Savoy, now endangered. It is not the white form of the black owl.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fornos

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

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.

News about Winery Fornos and wines from the region

The Rully appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Rully appellation. Here the vineyard is planted on different hills which have very different gelogicial characteristics. It partly explains the great diversity in the expression of the Rully wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 20 ...

Courvoisier Mizunara: the launch of a collaborative Cognac

Described by Courvoisier as ‘daring’, ‘visionary’ and ‘a first-of-its-kind collaboration’, Courvoisier Mizunara was created by the house’s recently-retired maître de chai, Patrice Pinet, and Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of Japanese whisky maker Suntory. The project dates back to 2015, when the president of Suntory visited Courvoisier at Jarnac shortly after Suntory took over Beam Global, the Cognac house’s then owner, in a deal worth US$16bn. Pinet expressed an interest in experimenting with miz ...

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

The word of the wine: Physiological maturity

The stage of ripeness of the grape berry when it has reached an optimal weight and when the sugar and acidity levels have stabilized.