The Winery Mario Calcaterra of Frioul-Vénétie Julienne

Winery Mario Calcaterra
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 5438 of the estates of Frioul-Vénétie Julienne.
It is located in Frioul-Vénétie Julienne

The Winery Mario Calcaterra is one of the best wineries to follow in Frioul-Vénétie Julienne.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Frioul-Vénétie Julienne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mario Calcaterra wines

Looking for the best Winery Mario Calcaterra wines in Frioul-Vénétie Julienne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Mario Calcaterra 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 Mario Calcaterra wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Mario Calcaterra

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mario Calcaterra

How Winery Mario Calcaterra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of cannelloni au gratin stuffed with bolognese sauce, marmite dieppoise or salmon crumble.

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

  • Friulano

Discovering the wine region of Frioul-Vénétie Julienne

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is an autonomous region in Italy, located in the extreme Northeast of the country, bordered by Austria and Slovenia to the north and east respectively. The eponymous wine region has four DOCGs, twelve DOCs and three PGIs and is best known for its white wine production. 77% of the region's wines are white, one of the highest proportions of any Italian region. The region's wines are distinctly different from other Italian wines in that they are made from non-traditional Grape varieties such as Sauvignon blanc, Riesling and Pinot blanc, as well as typically Italian varieties such as pinot gris and picolit.

The resulting wine varies depending on whether it is produced in the MediterraneanClimate of the South or the continental alpine climate of the north. In general, the wine produced here is fresh and Fruity, as one would expect from a cool climate wine zone. Friulano, the characteristic white grape of Friuli, is a classic example of these refreshing wines. It was once known as Tocai Friulano, but misleading associations with the prestigious Hungarian wine Tokaji led to a change under international law (it is now simply called Tai).

The top red wines of Winery Mario Calcaterra

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Mario Calcaterra

How Winery Mario Calcaterra wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of pork tongue with tomato sauce and pickles, tagliatelle with shrimps or lamb mice confit in port wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Mario Calcaterra

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mario Calcaterra. is a powerful.

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

  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Merlot khantus

An interspecific cross between Merlot noir and Kozma 20-3 (also the same parents of Merlot khorus) obtained in 2002 by Simone Diego Castellarin and Guido Cipriani at the Institute of Applied Genomics in Udine, Italy. Merlot khantus is particularly resistant to mildew and tolerant to powdery mildew. Known in Italy ... almost unknown in France and not registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties.

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Discover the grape variety: Divico

Interspecific cross between gamaret and bronner obtained in 1997 by Jean-Laurent Spring at the Agroscope Research Station in Pully (Switzerland). It should be noted that the divona is issued from the same cross.

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The word of the wine: Persistence

Persistence in the mouth of a wine measured in caudalies.