The Winery Plunkett of Strathbogie Ranges of Victoria

Winery Plunkett - Strathbogie Ranges Cabernet Merlot
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 25 of the estates of Victoria.
It is located in Strathbogie Ranges in the region of Victoria

The Winery Plunkett is one of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Strathbogie Ranges to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Plunkett wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Plunkett

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Plunkett

How Winery Plunkett wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of vegetable noddles, leek pie or eggplant moussaka with lamb.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Strathbogie Ranges

The wine region of Strathbogie Ranges is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Fowles Wine or the Domaine Wine X Sam - Sam Plunkett produce mainly wines white, red and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Strathbogie Ranges are Riesling, Pinot noir and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Strathbogie Ranges often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, microbio or vegetal.

In the mouth of Strathbogie Ranges is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 15 estates and châteaux in the of Strathbogie Ranges, producing 65 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Strathbogie Ranges go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Plunkett

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

Discover the grape variety: Seinoir

Seinoir noir is a grape variety that originated in . This grape variety is the result of a cross between the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. The Seinoir noir can be found cultivated in the following vineyards: Provence & Corsica, Rhône Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Plunkett and wines from the region

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Nomad winemaker: Why I make wine in Spain

When I started my nomadic winemaking project, in 2018 at Niepoort Vinhos in Portugal’s Douro region, I had no idea how large a part Spain would go on to play – I certainly never intended to make it the locus of my project. So how did it happen? Yes, there was an element of chance and taking opportunities where they arose. But also, among the talented winemakers to whom I pitched collaborations, I sensed an openness and a readiness to collaborate which seemed particular to Spain. Held in June las ...

The word of the wine: White winemaking

White wines are obtained by fermentation of the juice after pressing. A pre-fermentation maceration is sometimes practiced to extract the aromatic substances from the skins. White wines are normally made from white grapes, but can also be made from red grapes (blanc de noirs). The grapes are then pressed as soon as they arrive at the vat house without maceration in order to prevent the colouring matter contained in the skins from "staining" the wine.