The Winery Mia Luce of Judean Hills

Winery Mia Luce
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 90 of the estates of Judean Hills.
It is located in Judean Hills

The Winery Mia Luce is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Judean Hills to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mia Luce wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Mia Luce

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mia Luce

How Winery Mia Luce wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of cassoulet, salmon steaks with cream sauce or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Colombard

Discovering the wine region of Judean Hills

Judean Hills wine region – which is theoretically further divided into the Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and Southern Judean Hills sub-regions – Lies within the Samson region of Central Israel. The Judean Hills (or Mountains) form a low mountain range that dominates the landscape around Jerusalem and the West Bank. Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah also lie within the range, which formed the core territory of the Kingdom of Judah where the earliest Jewish settlements were located. Although not one of Israel's better known wine regions (like Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights in Galilee), Judean Hills is an emerging viticultural area, and significant potential has been identified for its future.

As the region's name implies, the topography here is decidedly hilly, with elevations of up to 1000m above sea level. It is precisely this relief that makes quality viticulture possible here, as the semi-desert of the plains below is typically too hot and arid to allow even the hardiest of vines to produce grapes with balanced sugars, acids and phenolics. This is to be expected given the continental nature of the macroClimate here in the Levant, and Jerusalem's latitude of 31 degrees North. Thus the Judean Hills are a fortunate exception in this otherwise desertous Part of the world.

There are very few northern hemisphere wine regions that are capable of producing quality wines this close to the equator, although attempts are being made in India and Mexico, and the southernmost wine regions of China sit on a similar latitude. Judean Hills vineyards enjoy more rainfall than those in the Negev to the south, and the climate here is characterized by Warm days and cool nights. This elevated diurnal temperature variation is the secret behind the wines' freshness, as it allows the vines to develop Complex sugars and phenolics during the day, then to cool down (and close down) at night, retaining vital Acidity. The shallow soils of the finer Judean Hills vineyards have a high stone content, which gives them excellent drainage potential.

The top red wines of Winery Mia Luce

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Mia Luce

How Winery Mia Luce wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beer goulash, traditional lamb couscous (from algeria) or chicken breast with curry and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Mia Luce

On the nose the red wine of Winery Mia Luce. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mia Luce. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Mia Luce

  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.18/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Carignan
  • Petite Sirah
  • Marselan

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

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Discover the grape variety: Marselan

Marselan noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Languedoc). 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 large bunches and small grapes. Marselan noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Mia Luce and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bray

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bray, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Cruzille

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Cruzille, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWi ...

The Rully appellation seen by Felix Debavelaere

Felix Debavelaere, from Domaine Rois Mages mentions the different personnalities of the Rully appellation. It is not easy to put it in a single box, not only because it can be produced in red and white but also because the wines can show different characters according to where the vines are planted. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 2021). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bourgo ...

The word of the wine: Maccabeo

See macabeu.

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