The Winery Orion of Maule Valley of Central Valley

Winery Orion
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.
It is ranked in the top 1897 of the estates of Central Valley.
It is located in Maule Valley in the region of Central Valley

The Winery Orion is one of the best wineries to follow in Maule Valley.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Maule Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Orion wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Orion

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Orion

How Winery Orion 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 with vermicelli or duck with vanilla (reunion island).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Orion

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Orion. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Orion

  • 2018With an average score of 3.32/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.12/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Maule Valley

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.

The top white wines of Winery Orion

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Orion

How Winery Orion wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of quiche without eggs, baked bar or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Orion

  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Orion

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Orion and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Defect

Characteristic of a wine that is either aromatically deviant or unbalanced on the palate due to an excess or a lack of one or more flavors.

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