The Winery Leone di Venezia of Santa Catarina
The Winery Leone di Venezia is one of the world's great estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Santa Catarina to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Leone di Venezia wines in Santa Catarina among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Leone di Venezia 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 Leone di Venezia wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Leone di Venezia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, veal or pork such as recipes of tajine of merguez and potatoes, veal shank with mushrooms or caramelized pork ribs.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Leone di Venezia. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, pepper or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or spices.
Santa Catarina is a state in the far South of Brazil. Quality wine production is still in its early stages, but is likely to develop rapidly as the industry develops country wide. To date, Santa Catarina's production is a mix of red, white and Sparkling wines.
It Lies immediately North of the country's southernmost state (and most prolific wine region), Rio Grande do Sul.
Located between the latitudes of 26°S and 29°S, Santa Catarina is far from the most obvious of locations for winegrowing. It lies entirely outside the 'wine belt' (the band of latitudes in which effective viniculture is traditionally thought possible). In the southern hemisphere, the wine belt encircles the globe between 30°S and 45°S.
It is on the high-lying plateau, the Planalto Catarinense, that almost all of Santa Catarina's vineyards are located.
The main wine-producing zones are in the central-southern portion of the state, around the towns of Sao Joaquim, Campos Novos and Cacador.
Altitude plays a key role in the Terroir here, particularly in keeping temperatures down. The plateau ranges between 915m and 1400m (3000ft and 4600ft). Basalt soils feature strongly in some parts of the planalto and are credited with bringing complexity to the wines.
How Winery Leone di Venezia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Leone di Venezia. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.
Most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very well known. It should be noted that a certain number of Italian grape varieties bear the synonym or name "calabrese", whether or not followed by an epithet, and care should be taken not to confuse them. Calabrese is also known in the United States, Italy, Bulgaria and Malta. In France, it is virtually absent from the vineyard, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.
How Winery Leone di Venezia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of salmon and zucchini gratin, chicken tagine or plain cupcakes.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Leone di Venezia. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
Action consisting of draining the wine from a vat of red wine (free-run wine), the marc then being pressed to obtain the press wine.
How Winery Leone di Venezia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of eggs in meurette, tuna and mayonnaise onigiri or chicken chop suey.
In the mouth the sparkling wine of Winery Leone di Venezia. is a with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).
How Winery Leone di Venezia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of pork shoulder with mustard, roast veal grand-mère madou or traditional welsh dark beer.
Said of a red wine that is generally young, very marked by tannins and astringent. See austere.
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Very old vine cultivated in Italy, in Sicily it would carry the name of grecanico dorato and in Spain would be the malvasia mauresa... . It can be found in the United States, but in France it is almost unknown. It should be noted that its bunches resemble somewhat those of the ugni blanc or trebbiano toscano and it would be related to the verdicchio blanco.
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Action consisting of draining the wine from a vat of red wine (free-run wine), the marc then being pressed to obtain the press wine.