Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana)La Gitana Sherry
Natural sweet wine
In the mouth this natural sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with appetizers and snacks, mature and hard cheese or cured meat.
The La Gitana Sherry of the Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) is in the top 80 of wines of Manzanilla.
Taste structure of the La Gitana Sherry from the Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana)
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the La Gitana Sherry of Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) in the region of Andalousie is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the La Gitana Sherry of Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) in the region of Andalousie often reveals types of flavors of cream, oaky or citrus and sometimes also flavors of apples, peach or green apple.
Food and wine pairings with La Gitana Sherry
Pairings that work perfectly with La Gitana Sherry
Original food and wine pairings with La Gitana Sherry
The La Gitana Sherry of Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) matches generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, mature and hard cheese or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of brownies with nuts, snail and comté pie or baguette filled with saint moret and ham.
Details and technical informations about Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana)'s La Gitana Sherry.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin
Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of La Gitana Sherry from Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) are 2016, 2010, 2008
Informations about the Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana)
The Winery Hidalgo (La Gitana) is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in the of Manzanilla to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Manzanilla
The wine region of Manzanilla is located in the region of Jerez-Xérès-Sherry of Andalousie of Spain. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Juan Pinero or the Domaine Sacristia AB produce mainly wines natural sweet, sweet and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Manzanilla are Petit Verdot, Tannat and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Manzanilla often reveals types of flavors of non oak, tropical fruit or oil and sometimes also flavors of stone, citrus zest or kerosene.
The wine region of Andalousie
Andalusia, located in the southwest of Spain, is the southernmost administrative region of the Spanish mainland. It is home to the world-famous fortified wine, sherry. This dynamic region is the most populous in Spain and has a colourful history. Its strategic position at the gateway to the Mediterranean and its proximity to Africa have made it the target of many settlements and invasions throughout history.
The word of the wine: Dosing liqueur (champagne)
Also known as liqueur d'expédition, a solution made up of wine and sugar added to champagne after disgorgement and which determines the type of wine: extra-brut, brut, extra-dry, dry, demi-sec.
