The Winery La Legua is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille-et-Léon.. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Castille-et-Léon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery La Legua wines in Castille-et-Léon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Legua 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 Legua wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery La Legua wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil, pasta gratin carbonara style or beef bourguignon with cookéo.
On the nose the red wine of Winery La Legua. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cranberry or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Legua. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
Located in the northern half of the Central Iberian plateau, Castilla y León is the largest of Spain's 17 administrative regions, covering about one-fifth of the country's total area. It extends about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from central Spain to the northern coast. Just as wide, it connects the Rioja wine region to the Portuguese border. Red wines reign supreme in Castilla y León, and the Tempranillo grape is undoubtedly the king.
It is known here by various synonyms, including Tinta del Pais, Tinto de Toro and Tinto Fino. It is the source of all the best wines in the region, with the exception of Bierzo, which makes good use of Mencia. The other grape varieties are the French varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. The white wines of Castilla y Léon are much less numerous than the reds, but hardly less prestigious.
How Winery La Legua wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of pasta bolognese, oriental stew with couscous or sloth pork loin.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery La Legua. often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or red fruit.
Merlot is a red grape variety with small black berries that appeared at the end of the 18th century. It is produced in most of the Bordeaux terroirs, where it represents 58% of the planted area, and its best terroir is located in Pomerol and Saint-Emilion on cool, clay-limestone soils. At the mythical Château Pétrus, the wine is made with 95% Merlot, with a dark, dense colour, aromas of red and black fruits and a superb range of flavours, the Merlot transforms during its ageing to give way to notes of prunes, undergrowth and spices. On the palate, it is supple with distinguished tannins. It is often blended with Cabernet Sauvignon. Merlot is no longer exclusive to Bordeaux, it is nowadays vinified all over the world.
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Native variety of Franche Comté, formerly grown in Beaujolais. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
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The state of translucency of a wine. A clear wine is not cloudy (which is a defect).
