The Winery La Contessa of Lombardie

Winery La Contessa - 9.9 Rosso
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 3032 of the estates of Lombardie.
It is located in Lombardie
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The Winery La Contessa is one of the best wineries to follow in Lombardie.. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Lombardie to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Contessa wines

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

The top red wines of Winery La Contessa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Contessa

How Winery La Contessa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of chicken, beef and lamb couscous (morocco), spaghetti with "favouilles" (curries) or marinated shoulder of lamb.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery La Contessa

In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Contessa. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Contessa

  • 2008With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Sangiovese
  • Marzemino

Discovering the wine region of Lombardie

Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions, located in the north-central Part of the country. It's home to a handful of popular and well-known wine styles, including the Bright, cherry-scented Valtellina and the high-quality Sparkling wines Franciacorta and Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico. Lombardy is Italy's industrial powerhouse, with the country's second largest city (Milan) as its regional capital. Despite this, the region has vast tracts of unspoiled countryside, home to many small wineries that produce a significant portion of the region's annual wine production of 1.

2 million hectoliters. A vast and geographically Complex region, Lombardy is well positioned to offer a wide range of wine styles. There are five DOCGs, 21 DOCs and 15 PGIs. The Oltrepo Pavese area stands out as one of the most important and best known, not only for its sparkling wine Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG, but also, more recently, for its Pinot Grigio, which since 2008 has its own independent DOC (Oltrepo Pavese Pinot Grigio).

Franciacorta, the second of Lombardy's two DOCG sparkling wines, comes from the booming and highly regarded vineyards between Brescia and Lake Iseo.

The top white wines of Winery La Contessa

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery La Contessa

How Winery La Contessa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of my grandmother's macaroni gratin with gruyere cheese and smoked ham, hake with small shrimps for cookeo or shepherd's pie and leek fondue.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Trebbiano

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top sparkling wines of Winery La Contessa

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery La Contessa

How Winery La Contessa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of beef bourguignon in the oven of nanou, blanquette of veal in the old way (self-cooker) or potjevleesch.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery La Contessa.

  • Sangiovese
  • Barbera

The word of the wine: Gourmet

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Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery La Contessa

Planning a wine route in the of Lombardie? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery La Contessa.

Discover the grape variety: Marzemino

A very old variety grown in northern Italy and recently in Sardinia. It can also be found in Greece, New Zealand, etc. In France it is practically unknown. It is most certainly related to Teroldego and Refosco dal Pedunculo Rosso and is said to be the brother of Lagrein, all three Italian varieties. It is also related to completer.

News about Winery La Contessa and wines from the region

Wine Australia closes Shanghai office after Chinese exports plunge

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Resolution in Valencian wine region border conflict

‘Por fin se ha hecho justicia.’ (Finally, justice has been served) This strongly-worded statement was made by the Denomination of Origin Utiel-Requena in Spain’s Autonomous Region of Valencia as part of a press announcement in July. It refers to a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that was fully ratified at the end of September, closing a decade-long conflict between the region’s three DOs that pitted Valencia against Utiel-Requena and Alicante. The latter two had demanded that grapes fro ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: February 2022

Inside the February 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: Wines of the Year An extraordinary tasting, our best ever, of 126 wines put forward by Decanter’s experts and staff, resulted in these 51 top-scorers Your choice: why you bought that wine But was it really? Rolfe Hanson uncovers a host of decision makers involved in you picking that one bottle Burgundy 2020: vintage report Charles Curtis MW on the standout wines of this exceptional if hot year Producer profile: Château-Grillet Matt ...

The word of the wine: Gourmet

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