The Winery Giesta of Beiras

Winery Giesta - Dão Branco
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Boas Quintas.
It is ranked in the top 419 of the estates of Beiras.
It is located in Beiras

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

Top Winery Giesta wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Giesta

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Giesta

How Winery Giesta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of oven-roasted breton lobster with salted butter from the jaguin brothers (the..., bread with cheese and bacon or cod fillet in foil.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Giesta

On the nose the white wine of Winery Giesta. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Giesta. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Giesta

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Arinto de Bucelas
  • Malvasia Fina
  • Encruzado

Discovering the wine region of Beiras

Beiras (Beira) is a traditional administrative region in the northern half of Portugal. It is also the name of the IGP, or Indicacoes Geograficas Protegidas, wine classification (formerly known as Vinho Regional) which covers the region as a whole. A wide range of wines are made in Beiras – red wines from the region are typically Rich, deeply colored wines made from Baga, Castelão, Rufete (Tinto Pinheira), Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Touriga Nacional, and are sometimes fortified to emulate their more famous Oporto cousins. Whites are most often based on Fernão Pires and Bical, the latter being a small-berried variety with the affectionate nickname Borrado das Moscaos ('fly droppings').

Beiras is relatively wide, as Portuguese regions go, and stretches from the Atlantic coast right to the border with Spain (about 100 miles/160km). It was traditionally a single region, but was later split into Beira Litoral (coastal Beira) and Beira Interior (inland Beira). The region encompasses several DOC (Denominação de Origem Controlada) titles, among them Bairrada, Beira Interior and the famous Dão. Terroir varies greatly in the Beiras region, which touches both sides of Portugal and takes in coastline, rivers, valleys, lakes, plateaux and low mountains.

The same is true of the Climate – although heavily influenced by the Atlantic in the maritime west, the continental draw of Spain's hot, DryCenter is strong in the east. In the west are the sandier soils of the coast, slightly inland are the limestone and clays of Bairrada, and the center has the alluvial soils of the Dão, Mondego and Ceira river valleys. Baga is arguably the most important red wine grape in Beira. It typically makes up the lion's share of red wines, particularly in Bairrada, where it accounts for more than three-quarters of the red plantings.

The top pink wines of Winery Giesta

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Giesta

How Winery Giesta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pot-au-feu or burgers with duck confit.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Giesta

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Giesta. often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Giesta

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Giesta.

  • Touriga Nacional

Discover the grape variety: Noiret

A complex interspecific cross between NY65.0467.08 (NY33277 x chancellor) obtained in 1973 by Bruce Reisch and Thomas Henick Kling of Cornell University at the Geneva/New York Experimental Viticultural Station (United States). It can be found in Canada, Poland, ... in France it is unknown.

The top red wines of Winery Giesta

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Giesta

How Winery Giesta wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shepherd's pie (potatoes, beef, carrots, bacon), lamb tagine with apricots or wild boar leg of 7 hours.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Giesta

On the nose the red wine of Winery Giesta. 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 red wine of Winery Giesta. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Giesta

  • 2018With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Tinta Roriz
  • Jaen
  • Touriga Nacional

The word of the wine: Cornalin

Black grape variety native to the Valais (Switzerland). It produces renowned wines of a dark purple colour with violet hues, an elegant bouquet and a powerful, fresh, fruity (cherry) and spicy palate. Cornalin wines can be drunk young or after several years of ageing, with game.

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

News about Winery Giesta and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Cornalin

Black grape variety native to the Valais (Switzerland). It produces renowned wines of a dark purple colour with violet hues, an elegant bouquet and a powerful, fresh, fruity (cherry) and spicy palate. Cornalin wines can be drunk young or after several years of ageing, with game.