The Winery Modra Frankinja of Podravje

Winery Modra Frankinja - Modra frankinja
The winery offers 15 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 167 of the estates of Podravje.
It is located in Podravje

The Winery Modra Frankinja is one of the best wineries to follow in Podravje.. It offers 15 wines for sale in of Podravje to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Modra Frankinja wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Modra Frankinja

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Modra Frankinja

How Winery Modra Frankinja wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pasta carbonara almost like the real thing, quick smoked salmon croque-monsieur or simple chicken salad (leftover chicken).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Modra Frankinja

On the nose the red wine of Winery Modra Frankinja. often reveals types of flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Modra Frankinja

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Blaufränkisch

Discovering the wine region of Podravje

Podravje is Slovenia's largest and most productive wine region. It is located towards the eastern half of the country, and Centers around the key towns of Maribor and Ormoz. With roughly 11,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyard, Podravje has twice as much land under vine as its western neighbor, Posavje. More than just a local center of activity, Maribor has Long been a wine center for this region of Europe as a whole.

Even today its vast Vinag wine Cellar is noteworthy, not only as one of Europe's largest traditional wine cellars (featuring 2. 5 kilometers / 1. 5 miles of tunnels) but also as a tourist attraction. Under the Hapsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian empire, the red wine from Ormoz and Maribor were a useful complement to the whites made in Austria itself.

Today, only a small proportion of the wine produced here is exported, much of it produced and sold in bulk. Over the last ten million years, the Pannonian Sea Dried out completely, leaving the Pannonian Basin (also known as the Carpathian Basin) in its wake. The erosion that took place over this period of geomorphological activity created hundreds of small, rounded hills with mineral-rich, free-draining soils – ideal viticultural land. The non-carbonate rock on which these soils are based is unusual, and a significant Part of the local Terroir.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Modra Frankinja

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

Discover the grape variety: Calabrese

Most certainly of Italian origin, more precisely from Sicily where it is very well known. It should be noted that a certain number of Italian grape varieties bear the synonym or name "calabrese", whether or not followed by an epithet, and care should be taken not to confuse them. Calabrese is also known in the United States, Italy, Bulgaria and Malta. In France, it is virtually absent from the vineyard, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Modra Frankinja and wines from the region

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St-Joseph 2020: report and top-scoring wines

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The word of the wine: Bâtonnage

A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.

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