The Winery Gran Cerdo of Rioja

Winery Gran Cerdo
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1304 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Gran Cerdo is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Gran Cerdo wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Gran Cerdo

How Winery Gran Cerdo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of monkfish (anglerfish) à la sétoise, pastillas with lamb and apricots or duck breast with black figs.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

On the nose the red wine of Winery Gran Cerdo. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earth or sour cherry and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, red currant or cinnamon. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Gran Cerdo. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Tempranillo

Discovering the wine region of Rioja

Rioja, in northern Spain, is best known for its berry-flavored, barrel-aged red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha. It is probably the leading wine region in Spain. It is certainly the most famous, rivaling only Jerez. The Vineyards follow the course of the Ebro for a hundred kilometres between the towns of Haro and Alfaro.

Besides Tempranillo and Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan) are also used in Rioja's red wines. Some wineries, notably Marqués de Riscal, use small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon. White grapes are planted much less. In 2017, the vineyard area was recorded at 64,215 hectares (158,679 acres).

The top white wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Gran Cerdo

How Winery Gran Cerdo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of creole chipolatas, tuna provencal style or turkey paupiettes in poultry sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

On the nose the white wine of Winery Gran Cerdo. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Gran Cerdo

  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Viura

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). 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 small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

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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.

News about Winery Gran Cerdo and wines from the region

What the Decanter team is drinking this Christmas

Tina Gellie, Content Manager and Regional Editor (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand & Canada) It was a big year of Decanter travel for me, heading to Napa and New York in June, South Africa in October and most recently a week each in Margaret River and South Australia. These trips have formed the basis of my festive selections. Christmas lunch on North Stradbroke Island (reunited with my family after four years, no thanks to Covid) always starts with oysters, followed by a bucket of prawn ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Perhaps they think “drinkers like oak”. Really?’

An electronic dart was tossed at us recently by Decanter reader Tim Frances from Kent. It landed on the screen of our magazine editor Amy Wislocki; Amy lobbed it across the virtual room to me, suggesting a column-length reply. ‘Here’s a poser,’ Tim began. ‘How do your experts grade a wine that they find intellectually well made, but that they truly madly deeply dislike? I’ve tasted wines I can admire dispassionately, but would stab my feet with forks rather than drink them. Must be a conundrum f ...

Errazuriz wine photographer of the year revealed

Jon Wyand has been crowned Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year after impressing the judges with his beautiful shot of a Burgundian vineyard worker gathering prunings. The photograph was taken on a crisp winter’s day at Montagne de Corton Hill in the Côte de Beaune. ‘The winning image evokes with stark beauty the reality of wine growing – you are always at the mercy of nature,’ said wine writer Joanna Simon, one of the judges. ‘But there’s an extra element here: is he scruti ...

The word of the wine: Tartar (deposit)

White, chalky deposits that occur as a result of precipitation inside bottles and are often considered by consumers as a defect. They are in fact tartaric salts formed by tartaric acid, potassium and calcium naturally present in the wine. This deposit does not alter the quality of the wine and can be eliminated by a simple decanting.

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