The Winery Leyendas de Familia is one of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in of Maule Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Leyendas de Familia wines in Maule Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Leyendas de Familia 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 Leyendas de Familia wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Leyendas de Familia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fricandeaux german style, marinated shoulder of lamb or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Leyendas de Familia. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Leyendas de Familia. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Maule Valley is the largest wine-producing region in Chile other than the Central Valley, of which it is a Part. It has 75,000 acres (30,000ha) under Vine, and has traditionally been associated with quantity rather than quality. But this is rapidly changing – the bulk-producing Pais vine is gradually being replaced with more international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère, and careful winemaking practices are being employed to make some world-class red wines from old-vine Carignan.
The Central Valley itself runs between the Andes and the Coastal Mountains from the Chilean capital of Santiago in the North to the up-and-coming region of Bío Bío in the South.
The Maule Valley stretches for around 60 miles (100km), and the Center of its wine production Lies 180 miles (290km) south of Santiago at a latitude of 35°S. Maule is further south than the Central Valley's star regions of Maipo and Colchagua. The large amount of land covered by the Maule Valley DO (Denominación de Origen) means there is a multitude of terroirs, from low-lying river valleys to Andean hillsides.
Maule Valley was one of the first areas in Chile to be planted to vine, and its viticultural history stretches back to the start of colonisation by the Spanish.
The region has Long been one of Chile's most successful bulk-production wine districts, as evidenced by the large amount of Pais still found planted here. It has only been in the past 20 years that Maule vignerons have made a move toward quality, pioneered by the Kendall-Jackson empire of California, which set up a winery here in the mid-1990s.
Despite this push toward modernity, some of Maule's better throwbacks have survived – the region is fast becoming known for some 70-year-old Carignan vines that are being used to produce Soft, earthy red wines with Richplum and black-fruit characters.
One of the more southern of Chile's wine-growing areas, Maule is slightly cooler than its northerly cousins and has higher annual rainfall, most of which occurs during winter.
How Winery Leyendas de Familia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of macaroonade from sète, smoked salmon omelette or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Leyendas de Familia. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Leyendas de Familia. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
How Winery Leyendas de Familia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of autumn leaves, fillet of lamb in potato dressing or green lentils strasbourg style.
All the operations (tasting and analysis) that allow the appellation to be obtained for each of the wines of a property, for each vintage.
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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.
