The Winery Leyenda of Maipo Valley of Central Valley

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The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 337 of the estates of Central Valley.
It is located in Maipo Valley in the region of Central Valley

The Winery Leyenda is one of the best wineries to follow in Maipo Valley.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Maipo Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Leyenda wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Leyenda

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Leyenda

How Winery Leyenda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of oxtail confit in red wine, elodie's pasta risotto or lamb chops with honey and spices.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Leyenda

On the nose the red wine of Winery Leyenda. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, blackberry or blueberry and sometimes also flavors of tobacco, black cherries or plum. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Leyenda. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Leyenda

  • 2017With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Carménère
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Maipo Valley

Maipo Valley is one of Chile's most important wine-producing regions. Located just South of the capital, Central-valley/maipo-valley/santiago">Santiago, Maipo Valley is home to some of the country's most prestigious wines. It is often described as the 'Bordeaux of South America', and Rich, fruit-driven Cabernet Sauvignon is undoubtedly its most celebrated wine style. Maipo is at the very Northern end of Chile's extensive Central Valley, running from just north of the Rapel Valley up to where the countryside begins to give way to houses and roads in the southern suburbs of Santiago.

The Coastal Range separates the area from the Pacific coast, and on the eastern side, the Andes Mountains rise suddenly and dramatically, separating Maipo from the Argentinean region of Mendoza. The Maipo Valley is the home of viticulture in Chile. The first vines were Planted around Santiago at the city's birth in the 1540s, but it wasn't until the 1800s that viticulture began to expand significantly, as an indirect result of entrepreneurial Chileans growing rich from the Mineral wealth found in the Atacama Desert to the north. It became fashionable for these wealthy individuals to travel to France, and they inevitably returned home with vines to plant in their New, French-influenced wine estates.

The vineyards of Cousino Macul, Concha Y Toro and Santa Rita were developed during this period, and they remain today important names in the Chilean wine industry. The region can be roughly separated into three broad areas: Alto Maipo, Central Maipo and Maipo Bajo. The vineyards of Alto Maipo (or Upper Maipo) run along the eastern edge of the Andes Mountains, where they benefit from altitudes of 1300-2500ft (400-760m) above sea level. At this height, Warm sun during the day is followed by colder nights, which slow ripening.

The top white wines of Winery Leyenda

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Leyenda

How Winery Leyenda wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of scallops with chorizo sauce, zucchini and goat cheese quiche or warm goat cheese/honey buckwheat pancakes.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Leyenda

  • 2017With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.20/5

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Leyenda and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Groslot

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