The Midbar Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 46 wines for sale in of Negev to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Midbar Winery wines in Negev among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Midbar Winery 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 Midbar Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Midbar Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef bourguignon with cookéo, purple leg of lamb with red wine and cranberries or savoyard pizza (cream base).
On the nose the red wine of Midbar Winery. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Midbar Winery. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
Negev desert wine region of southern Israel is one of the warmest and driest Vineyard areas in the world. It Lies at a latitude of between 31 and 29 degrees North, on the fringes of the Syrian Desert. For a northern hemisphere wine region, this is remarkably close to the equator; just a few degrees closer and it would be deemed a tropical wine region.
Negev only receives about 100mm (4 inches) of rain per year, much of which disappears in flash floods.
Modern computer-controlled irrigation is a necessity and water usage is understandably a major issue and is one factor why the wines of the region must reach a quality level to justify premium prices.
Despite its unlikely macroClimate, the Negev has been a vine-growing area since ancient times. It may well have been one of the world's very first wine regions – if an area could be seen as such 6000 years ago – and has been enjoying something of a minor renaissance since the 1980s, though it accounts for less than 5 percent of Israel's total vineyard area.
As demonstrated in the Judean Hills immediately to the north (and Galilee beyond that), high altitude is the viticultural antidote to low latitude.
Temperatures in the Negev reach great heights during the day but drop significantly overnight, which allows the vines some recovery time. High diurnal temperature variation is almost invariably a bonus for vineyard zones, but if the days are so hot and the nights so cool that the vines actually shut down, the chances of growing grapes with balanced sugars and acids are dramatically Reduced.
Thus the quality demands of modern wine consumers have driven Negev viticulture up into the hills, away from the extremes of the desert climate. Even at higher elevations, humidity is low in the Negev, but the vineyards nonetheless enjoy a morning blanket of mist before the heat of the day sets in.
How Midbar Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of pasta with scampi, cod fillets marinated in olive oil with vegetables or rice with milk.
On the nose the white wine of Midbar Winery. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, tropical fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or oak.
White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.
How Midbar Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of piglet shoulder with melting baked apples, leg with a spoon or seven o'clock leg or couscous from the sea.
Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.
Planning a wine route in the of Negev? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Midbar Winery.
Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
