The Winery Merino is one of the best wineries to follow in Limarí Valley.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Limarí Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Merino wines in Limarí Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Merino 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 Merino wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Merino wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of new york hot dog, salmon cannelloni or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Merino. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.
Limarí Valley is one of the Northernmost winegrowing regions in Chile, located 200 miles (320km) north of the Chilean capital, Santiago. This location places it at a latitude of 30° South, well beyond the latitudes traditionally associated with winegrowing. To provide context, the equivalent parallel in the Northern Hemisphere passes through Egypt, Iraq and northern Mexico. Despite all of this, Limarí Valley is not Chile's most northerly region; a further 50 miles (80km) north Lies the Elqui Valley.
Chardonnay is the star Grape variety in Limari Valley wines, producing wines with a certain minerality thanks to the relatively cool Climate and the limestone content in the soil. Syrah is also successful here, producing savory styles in the cooler, coastal vineyards and fuller, fruit-driven styles in Warmer, inland sites. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot – Chile's most successful varieties also feature, alongside the Chilean signature grape, Carmenère.
Because of its proximity to the equator (not to mention the world's driest desert – the Atacama), the Limarí Valley is hot and relatively Dry.
It is cooler and greener than the land on either side of it, thanks almost entirely to the narrow gap the Limarí River has created in the coastal hills. On either side of this gap, the coastal ranges rise to almost 2300ft (700m), preventing cooling Pacific breezes from reaching inland areas. On summer mornings, the coastal "Camanchaca" fog creeps through the gap and up into the valley. The fog refreshes the local vineyards with cool, moist air for much of the morning, until the sun has risen above the Andes and begins re-establishing the warm, dry, desert-like conditions with which northern Chile is more often associated.
How Winery Merino wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue in hot pickle sauce, lamb tagine with dried apricots or watercress salad with vitamins.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Merino. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Merino. is a powerful.
A natural hybrid, most likely resulting from an interspecific cross between Vitis Riparia and Vitis Labrusca, first planted by Hugh White in College Hill, USA. In France, it is one of the six hybrids prohibited since 1935 (included in European regulations): Clinton, herbemont, isabelle, jacquez, noah and othello. It should be noted that it was used for a very long time as a rootstock, today it can still be found in arbors and trellises raised in private homes, our photographs were taken in the Cevennes.
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It is a variety of Valle d'Aosta origin and, like Arvine, it is also found in Italy. In the past, it was cultivated in Savoy and registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list B, under the name of red humagne, but it is not related to white humagne. According to recent genetic analyses, the Swiss variety Cornalin du Valais is its father and Rèze its grandmother. It is also the grandson of the petit rouge d' Aoste.
