The Winery Luca of Mendoza

Winery Luca
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 24 of the estates of Mendoza.
It is located in Mendoza

The Winery Luca is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Luca wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Luca

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Luca

How Winery Luca wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of empanadas de carne (argentina), pizza queen with merguez or conejo al ajillo (spain).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Luca

On the nose the red wine of Winery Luca. often reveals types of flavors of cream, butter or white pepper and sometimes also flavors of nutmeg, grilled meat or cocoa. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Luca. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Luca

  • 2004With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.35/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.28/5

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

  • Malbec
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Mendoza

Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.

While the province is large (it covers a similar area to the state of New York), its viticultural land is clustered mainly in the northern Part, just South of Mendoza City. Here, the regions of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley are home to some of the biggest names in Argentinian wine. Mendoza's winemaking history is nearly as Old as the colonial history of Argentina itself. The first vines were planted by priests of the Catholic Church's Jesuit order in the mid-16th Century, borrowing agricultural techniques from the Incas and Huarpes, who had occupied the land before them.

Malbec was introduced around this time by a French agronomist, Miguel Aimé Pouget. In the 1800s, Spanish and Italian immigrants flooded into Mendoza to escape the ravages of the Phylloxera louse that was devastating vineyards in Europe at the time. A boom in wine production came in 1885, when a railway line was completed between Mendoza and the country's capital city, Buenos Aires, providing a cheaper, easier way of sending wines out of the region. For most of the 20th Century, the Argentinean wine industry focused almost entirely on the domestic market, and it is only in the past 25 years that a push toward quality has led to the wines of Mendoza gracing restaurant lists the world over.

The top white wines of Winery Luca

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Luca

How Winery Luca wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of croque-monsieur, grilled sardine fillets or summer tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Luca

On the nose the white wine of Winery Luca. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Luca. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Luca

  • 2019With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Luca

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

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

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.

News about Winery Luca and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Old vines

There are no specific regulations governing the term "vieilles vignes". After 20 to 25 years, the yields stabilize and tend to decrease, the vines are deeply rooted, and the grapes that come from them give richer, more concentrated, more sappy wines, expressing with more nuance the characteristics of their terroir. It is possible to find plots of vines that claim to be a century old.