The Winery La Guarda of San Juan
The Winery La Guarda is one of the world's great estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery La Guarda wines in San Juan among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Guarda 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 Guarda wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery La Guarda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef bobotie, leg of lamb bravado in the oven or grilled tuna with mediterranean marinade.
On the nose the red wine of Winery La Guarda. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Guarda. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
San Juan is an important Argentinean wine-producing area, producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European Grape varieties. The wine region of San Juan covers the administrative area of the same name in the north-western corner of Argentina. The province sits between Mendoza and La Rioja, and is almost entirely contained within the mountainous foothills of the Andes.
In terms of production Volume, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region after Mendoza.
It accounts for 17 percent of the national Vineyard">Vineyard area with 32,274 hectares (79,752 acres) recorded by the National Viticulture Institute in 2019. About half of the province's agricultural land is devoted to vineyards.
Vineyards lie in a series of valleys across the center-west of San Juan. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.
Other subregions include the Zonda Valley and the high-quality Pedernal Valley.
San Juan Grape Varieties
Syrah and the ever-present Malbec are the foremost varieties in terms of prestige. In terms of vineyard area, red grapes account for just under 38 percent of the total, with white grapes at 26 percent.
The 2019 Annual Surface Report of the National Viticulture Institute recorded the main varieties.
How Winery La Guarda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of cabbage casserole, skate with capers or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
How Winery La Guarda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta al forno (baked pasta), chicken in sauce or endive salad with walnuts, comté cheese and bacon.
Said of a wine that is unpleasantly pungent and has a vinegar-like odour.
Planning a wine route in the of San Juan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery La Guarda.
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.
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Said of a wine that is unpleasantly pungent and has a vinegar-like odour.