Winery Gérôme MarteauBrut
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The Brut of the Winery Gérôme Marteau is in the top 0 of wines of Rio Negro.
Details and technical informations about Winery Gérôme Marteau's Brut.
Discover the grape variety: Meunier
Meunier noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Champagne). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Meunier noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Champagne, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Beaujolais, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.
Informations about the Winery Gérôme Marteau
The Winery Gérôme Marteau is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Rio Negro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rio Negro
The wine region of Rio Negro is located in the region of Patagonia of Argentina. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bodega Noemìa or the Domaine Bodega Noemìa produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Rio Negro are Malbec, Merlot and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Rio Negro often reveals types of flavors of cream, raisin or forest floor and sometimes also flavors of balsamic, cedar or anise.
The wine region of Patagonia
Patagonia is South America's southernmost wine-producing region. Despite being one of the world's least-obvious places for quality viticulture, this desert region – with its cool, DryClimate – has proved itself well suited to producing Elegant red wines from Pinot Noir and Malbec. The geographical region covers a vast area – around twice the Size of California – across southern Argentina and Chile. Patagonia is more closely associated with dinosaurs and desert than with fine wine, but it has a viticultural zone that stretches 300 kilometers (200 miles) along the Neuquen and Rio Negro rivers, from Anelo in the west to Choele Choel in the east.
News related to this wine
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As the summer season comes to a close and many wineries prepare for harvest, more than 400 active wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia, a handful of which the BC Wildfire Service designates ‘a potential threat to public safety’ in major cities, small towns and the vineyards in between. Sparked on 15th August, the season’s most destructive wildfire – the McDougall Creek Fire – had the province’s wine industry on its knees. Spreading over 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres), it initially thre ...
French government to spend €200m destroying surplus wine
Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said the funds are ‘aimed at stopping prices collapsing and so that winemakers can find sources of revenue again’. However, he warned that the industry needs to ‘look to the future, think about consumer changes and adapt’. Demand for wine has fallen in this new era of high inflation, a cost of living crisis and lifestyle changes following the Covid-19 pandemic. That has led to a surplus of wine, which naturally pushes prices down. Some wine drinkers may welcome ...
Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
The word of the wine: Decanting
A sommelier uses a decanter to separate the clear wine from the solid parts in a bottle.
